7,712 Quotes About Books

If you do not understand the Golden Rule, which is the most important law in the universe, then you are in trouble. All other rules in your holy books combined — are not as valuable as the ONE Golden Rule. Take two minutes to learn the most crucial law in life. Killing another human comes with the highest penalty, regardless of how you justify it. All life is sacred.

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

He brought up her old scars again, and now he couldn’t leave them on the shelf like books to gather dust.

In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.

Hard to remember these days that there was a time you had to wait for the ink and paper reviews to see your work excoriated. With the invention of the internet, any subliterate cretin can be Michiko Kakutani.

Experience is the catalyst for all great stories.

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off somewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

The reality is that people reach for a Bible when they're feeling lost. But if they hadn't shelved it, maybe they wouldn't have gotten lost.

Liest man, was alle anderen auch lesen, kann man auch nur das denken, was alle anderen denken.