7,712 Quotes About Books

How do you tell a dream from a nightmare? If it involves a book burning , it's probably a nightmare.

You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is.

The drug I take is called schizophrenia, among other labels, which I desperately want to put away. I want to put the drug of schizophrenia down, and I want to put down the stigma surrounding its label.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.

Besides it's not as though the prisoner can truly die, any more than a character in a novel can. You can always flip back to the first page, can't you?

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers... only they don't critique me and then get up for coffee.

Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.