7,712 Quotes About Books

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

Good writing is both what one does and does not say.

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!