7,712 Quotes About Books

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.

I own the copyrights to the original interpretation to anything I’ve written. Should you decide to interpret it to be anything else, be prepared for the truth. - The Affidavit of Niedria Dionne Kennt

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Literature is my Utopia

Reading helps me escapeto another world - any world that I wantto be in.

We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another for a small bit of time, that make us feel less alone or even more comfortable with our aloneness, if need be.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.