Top Books Quotes

Imagine if you could dream about your books, read them in your dreams and learn them. You will never need to study in your life again. Just sleep.

I always find that after reading books written by Jane Austen that I speak much more properly, at least for a while.

As long as you stay cool, nothing can defeat you

Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense) exposure of one mind to another.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us.

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

If you are talking about beauty, books are cheaper than cosmetics.

By small and simple sentences, great books come to pass.

The best sci-fi stories use the fantastical to remind us of the reality of who we are today, the hope of who we may become tomorrow, and the shame of who we were yesterday.

There are no such things as book hoarders, only aspiring librarians

Seeing someone reading a book you love is seeing a book recommending a person.

A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend.

Libraries are full of ghosts, books being the most haunted things of all.

Master books but do not let them master you. Read to live not live to read.

How must it have felt, Pikes, the night they seized your films, like entrails yanked from the camera, out of your guts, clutching them in coils and wads to stuff them up a stove to burn away! Did it f...

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

When you trust, you are tender and delicate, but when you doubt, you are dangerous and destructive

You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength.

There shall be confusion also in many places, and the fire shall be oft sent out again, and the wild beasts shall change their places, and menstruate women shall bring forth monsters: