Books Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Books are the essence of life. And there is nothing like a good story to pass the time.”

— Victoria Hislop

“A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.”

— William Styron

“Good books and bad books, like people, are part and parcel of life. Keep reading, books and people.”

— Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

“I realized right away that books could take us out of ourselves, and make us larger. Even provide us with human connections we wouldn’t…

— Masha Hamilton

“Books are alive and, just like people, sometimes are welcome and sometimes shown the door and asked to come back later.”

— Christopher Herz

“I took my time, running my fingers along the spines of books, stopping to pull a title from the shelf and inspect it. A…

— Beth Pattillo

“It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible happiness I…

— Christopher Isherwood

“...but every day felt full of life, and of the relationships that give life meaning.”

— Paul Kalanithi

“Books took away the pain and disappointment, they always did. Books closed bad doors and opened good ones.”

— Anonymous

“And then when I got home I burrowed about among my books, arranging their volumes and loving the feel of them.”

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“The monuments, the ideas left behind by beings like me are my greatest pleasure in life. Without books I would long ago have been…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Even if this night we were spending together and everything else was just going to disappear into the past, that was all right -…

— Banana Yoshimoto