Books Quotes - The magic is only in what books say
“If
we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
―
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“So
Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all
those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the
sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not
alone.”
―
Roald Dahl, Matilda
“The
covers of this book are too far apart.”
―
Ambrose Bierce
“Books
don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
―
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
“Honesty
is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”
―
Thomas Jefferson
“A
book is a dream that you hold in your hands."
(As
quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)”
―
Neil Gaiman
“For
books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them
to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve
as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that
bred them.”
―
John Milton, Areopagitica
“Books
make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much
cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!”
―
Neil Gaiman
“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
“We
live and breathe words.”
―
Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
“We
have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain
error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal
truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming
'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection
that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer
however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads
only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.”
―
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Man
reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in
one's hand.”
―
Ezra Pound
“He
liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into
words inside his head.”
―
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
“I
have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on
distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”
―
George R.R. Martin
“I
have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with
a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny,
exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific
advantage.”
―
Roald Dahl
“Second
hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast
flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes
of the library lack.”
―
Virginia Woolf
“So
many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You
have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to
let them go!”
―
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“I
went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?'
She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.”
―
George Carlin
“The
magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe
together into one garment for us.”
―
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“Give
me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of
doors by somebody I do not know.”
―
John Keats
“Fiction
reveals truth that reality obscures.”
―
Jessamyn West
“I
would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think
decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”
―
Anna Quindlen
“It
is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of
the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature,
the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and
humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”
―
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“Stories
are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If
they carry the truth.”
―
Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
“I
went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was
too hard or too inflexible.”
―
Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“The
books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who
lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad.
She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She
travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English
village.”
― Roald
Dahl, Matilda
