Books Quotes - A house without books is like a room without windows
“Books
are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a
book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
―
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
“If
you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he
rereads.”
―
Francois Mauriac
“A
house without books is like a room without windows.”
―
Horace Mann
“What
she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening
wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted
to do.”
―
Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
“A
childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being
shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of
joy.”
―
Astrid Lindgren
“Have
you really read all those books in your room?”
Alaska
laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read
them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve
gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I
always have something to read.”
―
John Green, Looking for Alaska
“I
love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A
good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink
house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of
the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style, park your own car out
front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with.
Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that
part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like.”
―
Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever
“When
I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human
being, was a book.”
―
Margaret Walker
“The
love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And
all the sweet serenity of books”
―
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“[D]on't
ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out
from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't
apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from
bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that
people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the
book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people.
The most important thing is that people read...”
―
Neil Gaiman
“If
you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
―
Terry Pratchett
“I
kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
―
Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
“Words
dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a
white page are the soul laid bare.”
―
Guy de Maupassant
“I
am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be
a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good
books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see,
it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get
mad with anger.”
―
Simone de Beauvoir
“It
doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as
there are books.”
― Jo
Walton, Among Others
“Once
you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
―
Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume
“Books
serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after
all.”
―
Abraham Lincoln
“What
a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the
dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”
―
Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Selected Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay
“Books
are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
―
Stephen Fry
