Quotes on “books”

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything.

Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.

. . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.