Quotes on “books”

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books

I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.

With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.