Quotes About Books

A sampling of the quotes on this quotes page; I'd seen some of them before. These were some of the ones that were new to me:


I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. ~Anna Quindlen, "Enough Bookshelves," New York Times, 7 August 1991

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. ~Oscar Wilde

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. ~Abraham Lincoln

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. ~James Russell Lowell

"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread. ~François Mauriac

Books are embalmed minds. ~Bovee

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. ~John LeCarre