Books Quote by Stephan Attia

“Books are living things with blood and bones, and it breaks our heart when people dissect them.”

— Rebecca Wells

“A librarian can’t live by books alone, and I wouldn’t eat them if I could. Feel too much like cannibalism.”

— Mike Mullin

“A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a boundless variety…

— William Godwin

Books are embalmed minds.

— Anonymous

“Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!”

— George MacDonald

“But every time I shunned books, as scholars sometimes do, cursed them as verbal graveyards, and tried to make contact with the common folk,…

— Gunter Grass

“Where are my two precious human books so I may turn their pages, aye?”

— Ray Bradbury

“Maybe the one dangerous thing about reading a library's worth of books was the way your imagination got pumped up like a bodybuilder on…

— Dean Koontz

Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their…

— Laurel Lea

“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and…

— Virginia Woolf

“Nor did I forget what is the natural pleasure of every man who has been a reader;… filling the shelves of a tolerably large…

— Walter Scott

“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