Books Quotes - No furniture is so charming as books
“I
felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all
anymore if I didn’t want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don’t
know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, when they’re through blooming, have
some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served. Flowers didn’t ask
to be flowers and I didn’t ask to be me. At the end of Slaughterhouse-Five…I
had a shutting-off feeling…that I had done what I was supposed to do and
everything was OK .”
―
Kurt Vonnegut, Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
“Books
are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to
save the world to another.”
―
Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War
“When
a star-girl cries, she sheds not tears but light.”
―
Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl
“The
only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.”
―
Somerset Maugham
“A
book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the
dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his
voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is
not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable
relationships.”
―
Jorge Luis Borges
“The
ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally
alive.”
―
Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Personally,
I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was
ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore
the commentaries and criticism.”
―
Jorge Luis Borges, Seven Nights
“And
what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or
conversation?”
―
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“The
person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know
how to read.”
―
Benjamin Franklin
“That's
the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's
going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it
means, because it doesn't mean anything.”
―
Noam Chomsky
“Even
a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame
the hands, but you also read the book.”
―
Erika Johansen, The Queen of the Tearling
“Never
lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library
are books that other folks have lent me.”
―
Anatole France
“Reading
well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”
―
Harold Bloom
“Only
my books anoint me,
and
a few friends,
those
who reach into my veins.”
―
Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems
“I
am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very
funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else
might be going on.”
―
Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
“Some
books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”
―
W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays
“I
hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best
friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.”
―
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Always
read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
― P.
J. O'Rourke
“No
furniture is so charming as books.”
―
Sydney Smith , A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith; 2 volume set
“I'll
read my books and I'll drink coffee and I'll listen to music and I'll bolt the
door.”
―
J.D. Salinger, A Boy in France
“. .
. I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories.
I
liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.”
―
Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“She
said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air
and books. Books everywhere! Each wall was armed with overcrowded yet
immaculate shelving. It was barely possible to see paintwork. There were all
different styles and sizes of lettering on the spines of the black, the red,
the gray, the every-colored books. It was one of the most beautiful things
Liesel Meminger had ever seen.
With
wonder, she smiled.
That
such a room existed!”
―
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“You're
a hopeless romantic," said Faber. "It would be funny if it were not
serious. It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in
books. The same things could be in the 'parlor families' today. The same
infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios, and
televisors, but are not. No,no it's not books at all you're looking for! Take
it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, old motion pictures, and
in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were
only one type or receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we
might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in
what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one
garment for us. Of course you couldn't know this, of course you still can't
understand what I mean when i say all this. You are intuitively right, that's
what counts.”
―
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“There
are few sights sadder than a ruined book.”
―
Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window
