45 OF THE BEST QUOTES ABOUT BOOKS
“I shall be depressing if I’ve not a superb library.” – Jane Austen in Delight and Prejudice (print from Good Enterprise Mother)
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that present the world its personal disgrace.” – Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Fairy tales are greater than true: not as a result of they inform us that dragons exist, however as a result of they inform us that dragons could be crushed.” – Neil Gaiman in Coraline (print by Aenaon Art Work)
“When I’ve a little bit cash, I purchase books; and if I’ve any left, I purchase meals and garments.” – Erasmus
“That’s the factor about books. They allow you to journey with out shifting your ft.” – Jhumpa Lahiri in The Namesake
“She is simply too keen on books, and it has turned her mind.” – Louisa Might Alcott in Work: A Story of Experience (mug from The Scarlett Llama)
“If you happen to solely learn the books that everybody else is studying, you may solely assume what everybody else is pondering.” – Haruki Murakami in Norwegian Wood
“The place is human nature so weak as within the bookstore?” – Henry Ward Beecher
“I can do issues like that after I write–pluck any thread of need and weave a complete world.” – T. Kira Madden in Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
“Books are a uniquely transportable magic.” – Stephen King in On Writing (print from InkInTheOzarks)
“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night time.” – Isabel Allende
“A ebook is a model of the world. If you don’t prefer it, ignore it; or provide your individual model in return.” – Salman Rushdie
“Kids know completely nicely that unicorns aren’t actual, however additionally they know that books about unicorns, if they’re good books, are true books.” – Ursula Okay. Le Guin
“I like books. I am keen on every thing about them. I like the texture of the pages on my fingertips. They’re gentle sufficient to hold, but so heavy with worlds and concepts. I like the sound of the pages flicking in opposition to my fingers. Print in opposition to fingerprints. Books make individuals quiet, but they’re so loud.” – Nnedi Okorafor in The Book of Phoenix
“You don’t must burn books to destroy a tradition. Simply get individuals to cease studying them.” – Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451 (print fromRedHill Printables)
“I grabbed my ebook and opened it up. I needed to scent it. Heck, I needed to kiss it. Sure, kiss it. That’s proper, I’m a ebook kisser. Possibly that’s form of perverted or perhaps it’s simply romantic and very smart.” – Sherman Alexie in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“Books are mirrors: you solely see in them what you have already got inside you.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind
“I’ve all the time imagined paradise shall be a form of library.” – Jorge Luis Borges (print from wtfoxart)
“I’m a being comprised of letters, a personality created by sentences, a figment of creativeness fashioned by way of fiction.” – Tahereh Mafi in Shatter Me
“You’ll be able to by no means get a cup of tea giant sufficient or a ebook lengthy sufficient to swimsuit me.” – C.S. Lewis
“Phrases had been totally different once they lived within you.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz in Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (bookmark from The Quiet Ones Speak)
“Each story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.” – Octavia E. Butler
“I like the scent of ebook ink within the morning.” – Umberto Eco
“A reader lives a thousand lives earlier than he dies, mentioned Jojen. The person who by no means reads lives just one.” – George R.R. Martin in A Dance With Dragons (bookmark from Wonderflies)
“Books are in all places; and all the time the identical sense of journey fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they’ve come collectively in huge flocks of variegated feather, and have a appeal which the domesticated volumes of the library lack” – Virginia Woolf in Street Haunting
“Books had been my cross to non-public freedom.” – Oprah Winfrey
“If there’s a ebook that you just wish to learn, but it surely hasn’t been written but, you have to be the one to put in writing it.” – Toni Morrison (print from Brighton Gifts)
“Books are the airplane, and the practice, and the street. They’re the vacation spot, and the journey. They’re house.” – Anna Quindlen in How Reading Changed My Life
“A primary ebook has a number of the sweetness of a primary love.” – Robert Aris Willmott
“She learn books as one would breathe air, to refill and reside.” – Annie Dillard in The Living
“Books all the time make a room higher.” – Tanya Boteju in Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens
“It’s important to be a little bit of a liar to inform a narrative the correct approach.” – Patrick Rothfuss in The Name of the Wind
“I used to be learn to as a small youngster, I learn by myself as quickly as I might, and I recall being kind of overwhelmed repeatedly — if not by what the books really mentioned, by what they instructed, what they helped me to think about.” – Marilynne Robinson
“The America I like nonetheless exists on the entrance desks of our public libraries.” – Kurt Vonnegut in A Man Without A Country
“She feels like somebody who spends numerous time in libraries, that are the most effective kinds of individuals.” – Catherynne M. Valente in The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In a Ship of Her Own Making
“Salvation is definitely among the many causes I learn. Studying and writing have all the time pulled me out of the darkest experiences in my life. Tales have given me a spot by which to lose myself. They’ve allowed me to recollect. They’ve allowed me to overlook. They’ve allowed me to think about totally different endings and higher doable worlds.” – Roxane Homosexual in Bad Feminist
“Happiness. That’s what books smells like. Happiness. That’s why I all the time needed to have a ebook store. What higher life than to commerce in happiness?” – Sarah MacLean in The Rogue Not Taken
“A room with out books is sort of a physique and not using a soul.” – Cicero (pillow from Minnie and Maude)
“It’s is healthier to know one ebook intimately than 100 superficially.” – Donna Tartt in The Secret History
“…the key of the Nice Tales is that they have no secrets and techniques. The Nice Tales are those you might have heard and wish to hear once more. Those you may enter anyplace and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t shock you with the unexpected. They’re as acquainted as the home you reside in. Or the scent of your lover’s pores and skin. You understand how they finish, but you pay attention as if you don’t. In the way in which that though that someday you’ll die, you reside as if you received’t. Within the Nice Tales who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And but you wish to know once more. That is their thriller and their magic.” – Arundhati Roy in The God of Small Things
“Ultimately, we’ll all change into tales.” – Margaret Atwood in Moral Disorder and Other Stories (print from LittleEra)
“Consider this – that the author wrote alone, and the reader learn alone, and so they had been alone with one another.” – A.S. Byatt in Possession
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