Books Quotes - Books are the
plane, and the train, and the road
“In
the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get
through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
―
Mortimer J. Adler
“Books
are the mirrors of the soul.”
―
Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
“What
I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town,
but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
―
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“Books
are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the
journey. They are home.”
―
Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
“If
you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
―
John Waters
“We
live for books.”
―
Umberto Eco
“but
for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
―
Jane Austen
“I
lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
―
Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“I
read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
―
Orhan Pamuk, The New Life
“A
classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
―
Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature
“Reading
one book is like eating one potato chip.”
―
Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard
“A
book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
―
Franz Kafka
“After
nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in
the world.”
―
Philip Pullman
“I
don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very
magical can happen when you read a good book.”
―
J.K. Rowling
“A
book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out
into the expanding universe.”
―
Madeleine L'Engle
“Finally,
from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went
completely out of his mind.”
―
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
“And
on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous
for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their
great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted
anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their
shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who
have checked out those titles.
So
the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme
Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I
love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
―
Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
“Books
have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not
forget this.”
―
Dave Eggers
“The
best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
―
George Orwell, 1984
“There
are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love
the same books.”
―
Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense
“I
do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
―
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
“It
is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which
are your very own.”
―
Arthur Conan Doyle
“The
world was hers for the reading.”
―
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Isn't
it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo
had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you
read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the
book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger
self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed
flower...both strange and familiar.”
―
Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
“Many
a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
―
Franz Kafka
“If
a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?”
―
Jerry Seinfeld
