Books Quotes - I think of life as a good book

 

Books Quotes - I think of life as a good book

“....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life.”

― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

 

“I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.”

― Harold Kushner

 

“When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different countries, mores, speech patterns – but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life’s subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic.”

― Julian Barnes, A Life with Books

 

“We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing...

It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. 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

 

“A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.”

― Mark Twain

 

“Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.”

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

 

“He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.”

― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

 

“Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage.

 

"It makes me feel as if something had hit me," Sara had told Ermengarde once in confidence. "And as if I want to hit back. I have to remember things quickly to keep from saying something ill-tempered.”

― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

 

“I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level.”

― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

 

“I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.”

― Mae West

 

“There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.”

― Martin Luther

 

“I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.”

― Naomi Shihab Nye

 

“Books took me to places I could never go otherwise. They shared the confessions of people I'd never met and lives I'd never witnessed. The emotions I could never feel, and the events I hadn't experienced could all be found in those volumes.”

― Won-pyung Sohn, Almond

 

“In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you have forced your way through the shop past the thick barricade of Books You Haven't Read, which were frowning at you from the tables and shelves, trying to cow you. But you know you must never allow yourself to be awed, that among them there extend for acres and acres the Books You Needn't Read, the Books Made For Purposes Other Than Reading, Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong To The Category Of Books Read Before Being Written. And thus you pass the outer girdle of ramparts, but then you are attacked by the infantry of the Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered. With a rapid maneuver you bypass them and move into the phalanxes of the Books You Mean To Read But There Are Others You Must Read First, the Books Too Expensive Now And You'll Wait Till They're Remaindered, the Books ditto When They Come Out In Paperback, Books You Can Borrow From Somebody, Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too. Eluding these assaults, you come up beneath the towers of the fortress, where other troops are holding out:

 

the Books You've Been Planning To Read For Ages,

 

the Books You've Been Hunting For Years Without Success,

 

the Books Dealing With Something You're Working On At The Moment,

 

the Books You Want To Own So They'll Be Handy Just In Case,

 

the Books You Could Put Aside Maybe To Read This Summer,

 

the Books You Need To Go With Other Books On Your Shelves,

 

the Books That Fill You With Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified,

 

Now you have been able to reduce the countless embattled troops to an array that is, to be sure, very large but still calculable in a finite number; but this relative relief is then undermined by the ambush of the Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time To Reread and the Books You've Always Pretended To Have Read And Now It's Time To Sit Down And Really Read Them.”

― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler