7,712 Quotes About Books

You have the privilege of presenting a picture of what heaven will be like to those around you.

Finding the book was like kissing a lightning bolt.

The sound of her phone shocked her out of the dark world that was currently playing in front of her eyes from the book in her lap. She wondered sometimes, why she bothered with books. If she wanted to hallucinate, all she had to do was get up in the morning.

A sweet kiss on her head made her little heart swell; she had pancakes, her dog. She had love. All was well.

…more than a half million books, all of them smelling like dust and ink, two terrible smells that blend mystically to make something beautiful. Powells is another church to me, a paperback sort of heaven.

I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.

Words can be preserved, experience cannot. And that's why humanity clings to its words.

The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob, before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and heart of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him.

I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.