Books Quote by Christine Warren

“In the old days, books had awful covers and marvelous content; nowadays, the opposite happens.”

— Giacomo Leopardi

“Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books.”

— Kate Evangelista

“Once he'd asked, "Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room." She had laughed and said, "I've read…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“It was my sister's fault. She brought...books home before I was old enough to check them out of the library myself.”

— Michael Patrick Hearn

“Inside a book, she captures all that's lost. She journals so her words won't fly away.”

— Stephanie Hemphill

“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“We were supposed to be studying literature together. Instead I wanted to take her off the shelf, crack her open, and read the shit…

— Kendall Ryan

“That was one thing about books: once you read them they couldn’t be unread.”

— Lev Grossman

“She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I now saw, with great dismay, that what I had been carrying all this time was not a bowl but a book. This ruined…

— C.S. Lewis

“Though I enjoy the occasional eBook from time to time, I will only stop reading books printed on paper when they pry them from…

— H.L. Stephens

“the books shot off the shelf like academic projectile puke.”

— Leigh Evans