Quotes on “books”

All good books are about everything, abbreviated.

I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book.

It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.