7,712 Quotes About Books

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Sulphurous wind gusted in his wake; the dust of the street swirled and the folds of his black coat flapped against his thin body.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.