Alive Quote by Lynda Barry

Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and…

— John Darnielle

Other people just look so comfortable with a book in their hands - I never feel like that.

— Bob Mortimer

That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book…

— Ramona Koval

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few…

— Anonymous

I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on…

— Marya Hornbacher

I simply believe that a book has a journey to make, and should not be condemned to being stuck on a shelf… Let’s leave…

— Anonymous

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

— Franz Kafka

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

— Geraldine Brooks

Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen, which is…

— Annabelle Selldorf

You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply…

— Lloyd Jones