Quotes about booking

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“Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.”

“There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.”

“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”

“Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.”

“He didn't just occupy space; he saturated it. The room had been full of books before, now it was full of him.”

“Stranger, pause and look;
From the dust of ages
Lift this little book,
Turn the tattered pages,
Read me, do not let me die!
Search the fading letters finding
Steadfast in the broken binding
All that once was I!”

“The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to.”

“Book lovers will understand me,
and they will know too that part of the pleasure
of a library lies in its very existence.”

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“… what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?”

“I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.”

“People disagreeing everywhere you look
Makes you wanna stop and read a book”

“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.”

“With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.”

“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”

“I'd much prefer my books to shoes… In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel.”

“I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.”

“Like me, he has a searing belief that books are sacred. They might not be to other people, but when you have a passion, you hold on to it. You defend it. You dont pretend it isn't important at the risk of offending others." -Carrie.”

“That was one thing about books: once you read them they couldn’t be unread.”

“Books don’t change people; paragraphs do; sometimes even sentences.”

“Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.”

“I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.”

“The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.”

“Books have been my classroom and my confidant. Books have widened my horizons. Books have comforted me in my hardest times. Books have changed my life.”

“You cannot write for children… They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.”

“The real war will never get in the books.”

“Some people read books for fun.”

“Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.”

“I lived in the royal library, among all the books."
"You resided in a… library?"
"Theresuites inside and great balconies that overlooked the city, but yes. I was most content among those shelves, so one night, I simply never left.”

“There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.”

“Books do furnish a room.”

“When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.”

“Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.”

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”

“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.”

“I have my books and my poetry to protect me”

“I guess there are never enough books.”

“Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.”

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”

“Lord Peter Wimsey: Books…are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.”

“In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.”

“We live in a primitive time—don’t we, Will?—neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.”

“Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.”

“A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.”

“Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.”

“Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”

“How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?”

“If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.”

“As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.”

“Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.”

“The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”

“Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless.”

“Book love, my friends, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.”

“No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.”

“What kind of thoughtless creep would burn a book?”

“Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.”

“My chest of books divide amongst my friends.”

“In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always had a finely tuned ear for a library's accumulations of echo and desire. Libraries are anything but hushed.”

“A book is as private and consensual as sex.”

“Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.”

“I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place.”

“I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time…
… why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future.”

“It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing.”

“An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.”

“Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which I forget that I am reading, but am instead immersed in a made-up life lived at the highest pitch.”

“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.”

“What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.”

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.”

“Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.”

“You said in your book that at the end of the day, every politician is human. What about during the day?”

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

“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”

“Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.”

“When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.”

“Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks”

“Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.”

“Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done with a book he tried to give it away to someone who would love it.”

“I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.”

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”

“As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read at home and wishing I'd stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now.”

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.”

“As always, one of her books was next to her.”

“If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.”

“I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.”

“A paradox: The things you don’t need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.”

“I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.”

“What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.”

“Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.”

“If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.”

“When I didn't have friends, I had books.”

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”

“When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.”

“When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.”

“What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.”

“So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own.”

“All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.”

“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”

“It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.”

“I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.”