Book Quote by Cornelia Funke

“You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside of them," said Meggie...”

— Cornelia Funke

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

— Cornelia Funke

As movers and the moved both know, books are heavy freight, the weight of refrigerators and sofas broken up into cardboard boxes. They make…

— John Updike

Anyone who says, 'Books don't change anything,' or - more commonly - that crime fiction is the wrong genre for promoting social change -…

— Andrew Vachss

[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that…

— Mark Helprin

“I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain,” she says. “Not books.”

— Robin Sloan

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“My grandfather always says that's what books are for. To travel without moving an inch.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“When I meet someone who says they're not "much for books," I can guarantee that they haven't met the right book yet.”

— Kersten Hamilton

My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment; they come…

— Julie Schumacher

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to…

— Samuel Butler

Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide…

— Aleksandar Hemon