7,712 Quotes About Books

Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent of a sigh. It's the silence, sure, but it's also the certainty of all those books, the way they stand side by side with their still, calm conviction. It's the reassurance of knowledge in the face of confusion.

Teach, question and wonder about the who, the what, the when, the where, the why / (why not) and the how of everything under the sun and beyond the sun.

I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people were so real because they were the people the worlds would have produced. If you put Ged to grow up on Anarres or Shevek in Earthsea, they would be the same people, the backgrounds made the people, which of course you see all the time in mainstream fiction, but it's rare in SF.

Untuk bisa membaca banyak buku diperlukan dua hal dimana uang dan waktu tidak termasuk diantaranya. Dua hal tersebut adalah gairah dan kerendahan hati bahwa kita banyak tak tahu.

The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened

He ate and drank the precious words,His spirit grew robust;He knew no more that he was poor,Nor that his frame was dust.He danced along the dingy days,And this bequest of wingsWas but a book. What libertyA loosened spirit brings!

Books, books, books!I had found the secret of a garret roomPiled high with cases in my father’s name;Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and outAmong the giant fossils of my past,Like some small nimble mouse between the ribsOf a mastodon, I nibbled here and thereAt this or that box, pulling through the gap,In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy,The first book first. And how I felt it beatUnder my pillow, in the morning’s dark,An hour before the sun would let me read!My books!

You must go to the school or to the books or on the field because knowledge doesn't come to you, you must go to the knowledge.

Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.