7,712 Quotes About Books

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they'd just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn't translate through sports, or music, dancing, carpentry, plumbing. I was the bookish kid, more at home in the pages of a fantasy than in the room in the town on the planet.