Books
Quotes - I cannot live without books
“You
get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read.
People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
―
Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
“Make
it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
―
George Bernard Shaw
“I
spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In
the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I
lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced
adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing
limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being
comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of
imagination formed through fiction.”
―
Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
“Think
before you speak. Read before you think.”
―
Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Books
are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
―
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“Books
so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a
betrayal.”
―
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Where
is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
―
Henry Ward Beecherr
“I
cannot live without books.”
―
Thomas Jefferson
“Those
who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming.
This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the
cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful
things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
―
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Good
books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
―
Stephen King
“Reader's
Bill of Rights
1.
The right to not read
2.
The right to skip pages
3.
The right to not finish
4.
The right to reread
5.
The right to read anything
6.
The right to escapism
7.
The right to read anywhere
8.
The right to browse
9.
The right to read out loud
10.
The right to not defend your tastes”
―
Daniel Pennac
“So
please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go
throw your TV set away,
And
in its place you can install
A
lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then
fill the shelves with lots of books.”
―
Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“Books
may well be the only true magic.”
―
Alice Hoffman
“Many
people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
―
Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
“If
you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
―
Cicero
“There
are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
―
Joseph Brodsky
“Books
are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in
life.”
―
Christopher Paolini, Eragon
“No
book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often
far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
―
C.S. Lewis
“Books
are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
―
J.K. Rowling
“Truth
is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to
possibilities; Truth isn't.”
―
Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
“I
cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even
so, they have made me.”
―
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“She
is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
―
Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience
