Books Quotes

I just try my best to make the character the best I can and make it the most interesting and also entertaining and also true to the book that I can.

The closest thing we will ever come to an orderly universe is a good library.

The public library is the most dangerous place in the town.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only one page.

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

People say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

A room without a book is like a body without a soul.

That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers.

Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hands in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and musing sages, Lights who beamed through many ages! Left to your conscious leaves their story, And dared to trust you with their glory; And now their hope of fame achieved, Dear volumes! you have not deceived!

Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

Some books are drenched sands, On which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps, Like a wrecked argosy.

Silent companions of the lonely hour, Friends, who can alter or forsake. Who for inconstant roving have no power, And all neglect, perforce, must calmly take.

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good; Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

The big advantage of a book is it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy—tales and I like them best of all.

There was this billy goat at a movie studio who found and ate a can of film. When a nanny asked him how he liked it, he said, It was all right but I liked the book better.