Quotes about Books

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

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

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.

Books, the children of the brain.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicate

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.

There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.

The home is where the heart is, but in my case, the heart is always in my homeland.

One of the remarkable things about life is that it’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve Martin is releasing his latest banjo symphony, having just completed another movie and acclaimed, best-selling novel.​

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.