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.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

A good book is enjoyable. A great book sets off a bomb inside of you.

He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

This book fills a much-needed gap.

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

Never judge a book by its movie.

Never judge a book by its movie.

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom.

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

I have read your book and much like it.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.