Books Quotes

“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”

“Moral: It is a good thing to be a slave to the reading habit.”

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”

“I've always been a reader. I'm not a book collector, but I'm a book reader.”

“The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.”

“Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.”

“I was born with a reading list I will never finish.”

“A book is a device to ignite the imagination.”

“The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defence.”

“I owe my intellectual survival to the public library, where I could find things that I was not supposed to read.”

“Books are not for ever. We are their caretakers.”

“The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.”

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”

“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.”

“The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.”

“A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.”

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

“A book may be a flower that blows; a star that glows; a storm that flows; a flame that flies; a tragedy that destroys, or a comedy that cracks its sides with mirth.”

“A library is a hospital for the mind.”