The best Quotes and Sayings about Books (Page 2)

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.

If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger-

If you have never read secretly under the bedclothes with a flashlight, because your father or mother or some other well-meaning person has switched off the lamp on the plausible ground that it was time to sleep because you had to get up so early-

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless-

If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

'And what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversation?'

Book hangover: Inability to start a new book, because you're still living in the last book's world.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Open Books, Not Legs
Blow Minds, Not Guys

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

I'm sorry, but how can one possibly pay attention to a book with no pictures in it?

Everyone is a reader. Some just haven't found their favourite book yet.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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

Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later - no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget - we will return.

Gentlemen, gentlemen. I'll never understand. All these books. A world of knowledge at your fingertips. And what do you do? You play poker all night.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Never memorize what you can look up in books.

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

Jeod: 'Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.'

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

The world is like a book. Those who don't travel read only one page.

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

Books are ships which pass through the vast sea of time.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.