Quotes on “books”

I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.

You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.

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

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.