Quotes on “books”

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!

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

"I can talk to fish!" Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner," Fang said, joining us.

Nudge threw her arms around my neck. 'I love you Max! I love all of us too!'Yeah, me too,' Said the Gasman. 'I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together.

Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gateAnd though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when IShall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

I gave him my best cryptic smile. He did not fall down to his feet, kiss my shoes, and promise me the world. I must be getting rusty.

It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.

A house without books is like a room without windows.