Books Quote by Sir Walter Scott

“I am the bookkeeper, after all, and as a rule the numbers don’t behave too badly.”

— Lorraine Heath

“Oh, it doesn't get me. I'm pretty well cloistered, and I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Choose a book," she said. "Any book. Bring it here, and I'll show you what else the world can offer.”

— Peter V. Brett

“See, that's the beauty of books. We get to take what we want out of them and it can be different for everyone. You…

— Kristen Ashley

“"It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books.”

— Ray Bradbury

“and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever…

— Charles Dickens

“No thanks; I'd much rather pretend I'm somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.”

— Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer

“He had a small but well stocked library. He loved books; books are a remote but reliable friend.”

— Victor Hugo

“It's okay to bribe people with books, right?”

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Admit it. We all need books and fairy dust once in a while.”

— Emily Jane

“Books are much better companions to me than people.”

— Rakesh Satyal

“What a scholar one might be if one knew well only some half a dozen books.”

— Gustave Flaubert