Quotes on “books”

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.

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.

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

I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.

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

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

I’d volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free.

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

Break the spine of one of my books and I break yours.

Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.

I think a good book is a good book forever.I don't think they get less good because times change.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.