7,712 Quotes About Books

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader's heart and a writer's, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death ... And here's the magic. You're different. You can never go back to being exactly the same person you were before you disappeared into that book.

I kind of lost track of time...""For two hours?"Elend nodded sheepishly. "There were books involved.

The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

And I came to understand, in a way I never had before, that books are truly the stuff of miracles. I even dared to dream that someday, somehow, I might surround myself with books from many times and many tongues...