Books Quotes - My bookcase is all yours

 

Books Quotes - My bookcase is all yours 

“I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.”

― Dorothy Parker, The Collected Dorothy Parker

 

“Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.”

― Neil Gaiman

 

“I need someone who can be invisible, who can become a ghost. Do you think you can do that?"

 

I'm already a ghost, she thought. I died in the hold of a slaver ship.

"i think so.”

― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

 

“My bookcase is all yours."

I walked to the door. "I've just decided that those are my favorite five words in the world.”

― Kasie West, Pivot Point

 

“A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.”

― William Styron

 

“Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.”

― Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

 

“Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.”

― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

 

“I kind of lost track of time..."

"For two hours?"

Elend nodded sheepishly. "There were books involved.”

― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

 

“You can't have too much dog in a book.”

― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

 

“Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader's heart and a writer's, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death ... And here's the magic. You're different. You can never go back to being exactly the same person you were before you disappeared into that book.”

― Anthony Doerr

 

“Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.”

― Laurie Notaro, I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies): True Tales of a Loudmouth Girl

 

“No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.”

― Bohumil Hrabal, Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

 

“You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.”

― Steven Wright

 

“You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book.”

― Al Pacino

 

“(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?)

 

Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you can a book. A computer does not smell. There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better. It smells like ancient Egypt. A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it. You put it in your pocket and you walk with it. And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.”

― Ray Bradbury

 

“As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.”

― Ludwig Feuerbach

 

“In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian. ”

― Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

 

“Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly”

― Jayne Ann Krentz, Running Hot

 

“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.”

― Harper Lee

 

“The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.”

― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

 

“Books fall open, you fall in”

― David McCord

 

“I love a book that makes me cry.”

― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables