Quotes on “books”

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

When you are old and grey and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.