Quotes on “books”

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.

It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians.

Only bad books have good endings.If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better."

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.

Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.