Quotes on Book

Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock.

Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this book, on the contrary, are not mine. They came freely to me, and I give them freely away. I have no "intellectual property," and I think that all claimants to such property are theives.

Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in books, and so didn't waste their time with them. Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing, I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar.

Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.

Our books will bear witness for or against us, our books reflect who we are and who we have been, our books hold the share of pages granted to us from the Book of Life. By the books we call ours we will be judged

This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will.

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.

Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional critic, then what point is there to your reading? Only that it’s yours. Similarly, why live your life? Because it’s yours. But what if such an answer becomes less and less convincing?

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity?

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.