Book Quotes - Page 11

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.

My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.

As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

That's what this country needs - more books!

Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading - once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive - is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.

Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.

Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned-in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?

The world exists to end up in a book.

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.

Have you never picked up a book you've read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way?

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.

Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch.