Book Lovers Quotes - Page 2

A writer is never alone, he is always with himself

Be great, read great books.

One day I will write a book. An epitaph

Crime isn't pretty, only fashionably dressed.

If a book doesn’t inspire you to read more, it was not worth read.

If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing

What a blessing it is to love books.

In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe true treasures.

Everyone and Everything is conspiring to end up in a book.

In order to protect their good names for posterity, many writers never wrote what they thought or the truth as it stood. That's why truth still lies hidden in matters of power, sex and religion. No wonder they chose to do so, many who dared paid with their heads

I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because when I write, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone, I am just expressing myself and my opinions. It’s ok if my opinions are different from those of the reader, each of us can have his own opinions. So writing is like talking, if you are afraid of writing, you may end up being afraid of talking

A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape.Even when you're the one writing it.

If you read great literature every day, you will uplift your spirit, soul and self.

The Bible is the greatest literature of all times.

Dare to read.

There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing. My mother, who had organized the party, told me that the lady at the bakery said that they had never put a book on a birthday cake before, and that mostly for boys it was footballs or spaceships. I was their first book.

The most comfortable place for a tired mind is in the lap of a book.

My books, my paradise!

I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid and I discovered that the letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been. We don't have the words for it, since we hadn't yet learned the words. It must have been astonishing, to be given the key to the kingdom and see it turn in our hands so easily.

The best gift, you can give me is a book.

I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide

When I read books, it is like I have met the sacred souls.

Write it as you see in your own perspective, you may be right or wrong but then what, that's how you see it

We live for books.

Quando per tanti anni ti leghi ad una persona, tranciare il filo che ti tiene avvinta è impossibile. Il filo delicato diviene una catena con lucchetti a doppia mandata e non esiste modo per liberarsi del ricordo, del sentimento che ti fa battere il cuore, incendiare il sangue e amare il passato che ti fa sentire ancora viva.

Lui mi dava e mi toglieva e volevo supplicarlo di smetterla.

I am not afraid of giving bad reviews. If I don't like a book, I don't like it. Period. I don't do promotion

I miei silenzi erano scudi contro la realtà dietro i quali nascondevano la verità.

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.

I am what I have ever read

If I had time, money and knowledge I could write about everything; but no problem, Google is already doing it

Write like you have many readers.

Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories.

I took my time, running my fingers along the spines of books, stopping to pull a title from the shelf and inspect it. A sense of well-being flowed through me as I circled the ground floor. It was better than meditation or a new pair of shoes- or even chocolate. My life was a disaster, but there were still books. Lots and lots of books. A refuge. A solace. Each one offering the possibility of a new beginning.

Books, I think, are what magic smells like.

I spent all the money I had, to get the sacred books of my life.

I am lost in the world of books. So many books to read.

Io mi sono sempre lasciata attraversare dalle emozioni, investire con rabbiosa furia, ferirmi nella tormentosa lotta alla sopravvivenza.

Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.

He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule to never touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. "That's the only kind of book I can trust," he said."It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading a book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short.

A book is like a trip to a world of imagination and creativity, and those who don’t read will for ever stay in the same place.

Books are more to treasure than cars.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

Books are to the mind as the whetstone for the knives.

Read to refresh your mind.

Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts

The pleasure of reading is indescribable.

The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his own people, all by the powers of his imagination. It's the closest a man can come close to the gods. No wonder the most successful writers are considered immortals

Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better

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.

She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading.

I read for pleasure and to acquire knowledge.

We write to give strength to the soul of the spirit.

Writing is a holy occupation.

If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice.

It is not enough for the hand to touch a book and turn its pages. The pages of a book must touch the heart.

We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more than others. Writers are explorers

Reading is my breath.

A book can become your best companion in times of crisis.Not only do you learn in the journey of your pages, but rediscover yourself, with your virtues and defects ... often makes you question everything, even life itself.The books are fantastic, as they not only transport you to other places and the awakening of sensations, curiosity, laughter, hilarity, sadness, etc. Other times, it can give you a quiet space in truculent moments, and lead you to a level of peace, acceptance, healthy optimism, that I will never tire of recommending it.Never stop reading, there are no excuses ... there are always some minutes in any place, at any time and a huge universe for all tastes !!!

That’s what our country needs – more books and far more readers.