Quotes on “books”

My library is an archive of longings.

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.

A good book is an event in my life.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

I love the way that each book—any book—is its own journey. You open it, and off you go….

The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.