7,712 Quotes About Books

Books. Just the word brings me joy!

Speaking is instant. Writing is a process.

Someone mentioned therapy to me once. I read a book instead. ~ Drew Stirling

I don't want to be an insufferable pretentious "artist". I just want to fucking write. To create. And to to hear the stories of the people around the globe who go, "yeah, okay, I've been there, man.

Literature is the real life of imaginary people.

We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reach, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are.

Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on; unless, of course, you are the book’s publisher.

The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.