Quotes and sayings about tag  #books

Quotes and sayings about tag  books

444 Quotes

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

Jhumpa Lahiri

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

Jo Walton

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

Jo Walton

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

Joan Bauer

She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.

Joe Hill

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

John Berger

If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job.

John Berry

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

John Cheever

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.

John Green

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

John Green

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

John Green

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

John Green

I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

John Green

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

John Milton

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

John Muir

Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

John Piper

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

John Ruskin

Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head.

John Steinbeck

I guess there are never enough books.

John Steinbeck

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

John Updike

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

John Waters

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.

John Waters

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

John Waters

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

John Wesley

So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

Jonathan Safran Foer

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

Jorge Luis Borges

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

Jorge Luis Borges

Entrei numa livraria. Pus-me a contar os livros que há para ler e os anos que terei de vida. Não chegam! Não duro nem para metade da livraria! Deve haver certamente outras maneiras de uma pessoa se salvar, senão… estou perdido.

José de Almada Negreiros

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

José Saramago

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Joseph Brodsky

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