Category: Quotes about books

I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people

But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature

What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else

Stories never really end…even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip

Books are the mirrors of the soul

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you

It’s strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need