Quotes on “books”

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

You can never, never have too many books

Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.

Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

What better place to kill time than a library?

Of course I loved books more than people.

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.