Books Quotes - A
well-composed book is a magic carpet
“There
must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in
a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
―
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“A
well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we
cannot enter in any other way.”
―
Caroline Gordon
“He
was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.
She
was the book thief without the words.
Trust
me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would
hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like
rain.”
―
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“Five
exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
―
Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
“If
books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need
readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t
be in books.
The
book needs you.”
―
Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room
“Literature
is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
―
G.K. Chesterton
“Reading
is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your
ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like
looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
―
Roberto Bolaño, 2666
“We
don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need
books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a
time lasts forever.”
―
Philip Pullman
“My
alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life
reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
―
Malcolm X
“The
Voice
There
is a voice inside of you
That
whispers all day long,
"I
feel this is right for me,
I
know that this is wrong."
No
teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or
wise man can decide
What's
right for you--just listen to
The
voice that speaks inside.”
―
Shel Silverstein
“The
worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
―
Joseph Joubert
“One
glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead
for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
―
Carl Sagan
“Book
collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a
fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do
it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a
sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
―
Jeanette Winterson
“Even
in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be
original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence
how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become
original without ever having noticed it.”
―
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“We
read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and
think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we
ourselves are and may become.”
―
Ursula K. LeGuin
“Be
awesome! Be a book nut!”
―
Dr. Seuss
“To
acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost
all the miseries of life.”
― W.
Somerset Maugham, Books and You
“Speaking
personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold,
dead fingers off of the binding.”
―
Stephen King
“Everything
in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
―
Stéphane Mallarmé
“If
you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first
one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your
memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where
you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words:
the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate
while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the
printed page better than anything else.”
―
Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
