Quotes on “books”

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

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

My arms are killing me. I didn't know words could be so heavy.

As always, one of her books was next to her.

The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.

Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.

Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.

If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Classic? - a book which people praise and don't read.

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.

The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.