7,712 Quotes About Books

I love the smell of a new book, but I prefer inhaling fresh bottles of ink and glue. They get me more lightheaded – unless I read the book.

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU!

I don't just write books. I climb inside and live there.

If you sell, say, two thousand copies, it is the same thing as if you had sold nothing at all because two thousand is too vast—I mean, for the imagination to grasp. While thirty-seven people—perhaps thirty-seven are too many, perhaps seventeen would have been better or even seven—but still thirty-seven are still within the scope of one's imagination.

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.

When a day goes by and I haven't written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about.

A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far-away places without ever leaving your chair.

Some people are wise through experience, but no one is wise through books.