Quotes on “books”

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)

Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.

No furniture is so charming as books.

You're never alone when you're reading a book.