7,712 Quotes About Books

I'll read my books and I'll drink coffee and I'll listen to music and I'll bolt the door.

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.

One can fight money only with money! from my Tale Of The Rock Pieces.

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.