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  • A room without books is like a life without meaning.

    Book   Rooms   Lovers  
  • I'll have mine [The Book-Lovers' Anthology] till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I'm leaving it behind for someone else to love. I shall sprinkle pale pencil marks through it pointing out the best passages to some book-lover yet unborn.

  • All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

    Book   Reading   Practice  
  • One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.

    Book   Character   Lovers  
    Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.131
  • There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

    "The Balancing Act: Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership". Book by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan, 1996.
  • More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.

    Book   Eye   Library  
  • It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the proper alembic be applied.

    Book   May   Impossible  
    John Hill Burton (1862). “The Book-hunter, Etc”, p.141, Edinburgh : S. Blackwood
  • Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.

    Book   Night   Library  
    Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.222, tredition
  • The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

    Country   Reading   Book  
    Isaac Barrow, John Tillotson, Abraham Hill (1700). “The works of the learned Isaac Barrow ...”
  • Solitary people, these book lovers. I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't see them for a long time, you don't have to wonder what they do, how they're getting along with themselves. You just know that they're all right, and probably doing something they like.

    Book   Thinking   Long  
    Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.202, Pan Macmillan
  • A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

    Book   Reading   Ice  
  • Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.

    Book   Mind   Lovers  
  • Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

    Book   Pages   Life Is  
    Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.539, Simon and Schuster
  • A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

    Book   Reading   Men  
    Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”
  • Foreign novels are less action-oriented. They have a different pace; they’re more reflective. They challenge us to look for the story, find the story within the story.

    Stephanie Perkins (2013). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.92, Usborne Publishing Ltd
  • Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

    Real   Book   Towns  
    John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.183, A&C Black
  • Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.

    Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.142
  • It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.

    Book   Order   Lovers  
  • Libraries are the wardrobes of literature.

    George Dyer (1814). “History of the University and colleges of Cambridge: including notices relating to the founders and eminent men”, p.6
  • The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them.

    Book   Reading   Night  
  • I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

    Book   Character   Paper  
  • Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.

    Book   Moon   Light  
    James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.318
  • My thought is, if you're a book lover, you're going to enjoy winning a book even if it's not something you'd ordinarily pick up on your own. It's a chance to expand your horizons a little.

    Book   Winning   Horizon  
    "Patrick Rothfuss on his charitable fans, priorities, and kissing a llama". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2014.
  • Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.

    Book   Iron   Quality  
  • Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who will lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconscionably as the dope-taker in pursuit of his drug. They may not want the books to read immediately, or at all; they want them to possess, to range on their shelves, to have at command. They want books as a Turk is thought to want concubines - not to be hastily deflowered, but to be kept at their master's call, and enjoyed more often in thought than in reality.

    Lying   Book   Reality  
    "Tempest-Tost". Book by Robertson Davies, Part 6, 1951.
  • Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

    Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.155
  • I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him.

    Children   Father   Book  
  • Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.

    Book   Men   Lovers  
    William Godwin (1823). “The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays”, p.27
  • Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

    Book   Curiosity   Way  
    William Godwin (1823). “The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays”, p.29
  • We expect a great man to be a good reader.

    Book   Men   Lovers  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.178, Рипол Классик
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