Books Quotes

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

Oh for a book and a shady nook...

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

I read part of it all the way through.

Live always in the best company when you read.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it.

Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.

Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.