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
