7,712 Quotes About Books

Sometimes I reread my favorite books from back to front. I start with the last chapter and read backward until I get to the beginning. When you read this way, characters go from hope to despair, from self-knowledge to doubt. In love stories, couples start out as lovers and end as strangers. Coming-of-age books become stories of losing your way. Your favorite characters come back to life.

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

The phrase 'see attached bibliography' is the single sexiest thing you have ever written to me.