Best Quotes about Books - reading
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
Wycherley, William
Read good, big important things.
Noonan, Peggy
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
Sandwell, B. K.
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
Trollope, Anthony
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
Milton, John
When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.
Baldwin, James
A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
Brooke, Rupert
Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
Faulkner, William
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
Goldsmith, Oliver
Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. So books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when opened again, will again impart instruction.
Johnson
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Johnson, Samuel
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
Kempis, Thomas
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
Mallarme, Stephane
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.
Orwell, George
The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
No furniture is so charming as books.
Smith, Sydney
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
Rostand, Jean
People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
Twain, Mark
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
Penn, William
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
Stendhal, Henri B.
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Carlyle, Thomas
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.
Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!
Baudelaire, Charles
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
Wilde, Oscar
Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20, 000.
Horowitz, Lois
When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Erasmus, Desiderius
If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.
Carlyle, Thomas
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
Lytton, Lord Edward
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
Carlyle, Thomas
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
McKenna, Richard
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Lincoln, Abraham
She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.
Rhys, Jean
Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]
Bach, Richard
We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things -- the teacher of all truth.
Kingsley, Charles
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
Dane, Frank
You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
Morely, John
A good title is the title of a successful book.
Chandler, Raymond
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
Thackeray, William M.
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
Wolfe, Thomas
There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
Mencken, H. L.
The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand
What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.
Mccay, James T.
For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.
Lejeune, Caroline
I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.
Coolio
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Lee, Spike
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
Jackson, Holbrook
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Vaneigem, Raoul
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
Benjamin, Walter
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.
Tupper, Martin
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