Quotes on “books”

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.