Books are a uniquely portable magic.
Stephen KingIt is not true that 'we have only one life to live'; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
Samuel Ichiye HayakawaIf you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!
John WatersThere are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Ray BradburyRereading we find a new book.
Mason CooleyWithout words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Herman HesseAll the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
MoliereYou can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C. S. LewisFinishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.
William FeatherOutside of a dog a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho MarxThere is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Oscar WildeThe things I want to know are in books, my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham LincolnThere is no friend as loyal as a book.
Ernest HemingwayDo not read as children do to amuse yourself or like the ambitious for the purpose of instruction. No read in order to live.
Gustave FlaubertNext to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Charles Caleb ColtonIn books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Thomas CarlyleA good book is an event in my life.
StendhalThe worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
John WoodenGood friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark TwainI cannot live without books.
Thomas JeffersonSome books leave us free and some books make us free.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI would always want printed books.
J. K. RowlingIf a book is well written, I always find it too short.
Jane AustenA home without books is a body without soul.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIn the dime stores and bus stations people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Bob DylanIf you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV you're not considered well viewed.
Lily TomlinEvery book is a children's book if the kid can read!
Mitch HedbergBooks are not men, and yet they stay alive.
Henry Ward BeecherA bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one - it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
Aldous Huxley'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Mark TwainLife is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.
Cassandra ClareFrom the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
Groucho MarxI must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on I go to the library and read a good book.
Groucho MarxYou don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray BradburyThere is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
Walt DisneyThe man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark TwainMiss a meal if you have to but don't miss a book.
Jim RohnIt is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich NietzscheI'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
Steven WrightBuying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Arthur SchopenhauerBooks, like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Samuel JohnsonBooks are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Robert Louis StevensonA book worth reading is worth buying.
John RuskinQuote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
Groucho MarxYou cannot open a book without learning something.
ConfuciusWhen I get a little money I buy books, and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Desiderius ErasmusI have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
Herman HesseRead the best books first or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David ThoreauIt is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Victor HugoBooks are like imprisoned souls, till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Samuel ButlerAny 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.
Maya AngelouThe reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Rene DescartesThe book you don't read won't help.
Jim RohnSomeone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
Stephen HawkingMy thought has been shaped by books, my desires by pictures.
Mason CooleyThe covers of this book are too far apart.
Ambrose BierceBooks - the children of the brain.
Jonathan SwiftThe oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel ButlerMy main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms and to keep other people's books out of mine.
Samuel ButlerI know many books which have bored their readers but I know of none which has done real evil.
VoltaireYou have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.
Dr. SeussThe good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear, or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life, and one is as good as the other.
Ernest HemingwayIt took me 40 years to write my first book.
Paulo CoelhoIf one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar WildeBooks serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham LincolnBe careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark TwainYou can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.
Dr. SeussThere are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Charles DickensThe deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived not taught.
Herman HesseWith freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
Oscar WildeRomeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
William ShakespeareIf love be blind, it best agrees with night.
William ShakespeareYour life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
Fran LebowitzThe proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous HuxleyBooks are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
James Russell LowellThe biggest seller is cookbooks, and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook.
Andy RooneyI love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me and I spent a year or a year and a half of my life working on it.
Stephen KingAn author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
Benjamin DisraeliI've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
F. Scott FitzgeraldAll modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Ernest HemingwayI hate books, they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
Jean-Jacques RousseauBooks let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
William HazlittEach age it is found must write its own books, or rather each generation for the next succeeding.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSome good, some so-so and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my friend
Marcus AureliusThe Bible is literature, not dogma.
George SantayanaA book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
Henry Ward BeecherGreat nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
John RuskinIf many years were added to my life I would give fifty to the study of the Book of Changes and might thereby manage to avoid great mistakes.
ConfuciusBooks were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
Oprah WinfreyThe books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
Anatole FranceA book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl SandburgIf all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Benjamin FranklinIf I have not read a book before it is for all intents and purposes new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
William HazlittThis will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Elbert HubbardIdeally a book would have no order to it and the reader would have to discover his own.
Mark TwainWords are the voice of the heart
ConfuciusIf you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
Frank ZappaI can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
David Herbert LawrenceI am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
Henry A. KissingerLet other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Jane AustenI read the book of Job last night I don't think God comes out well in it.
Virginia WoolfIt's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark TwainIf I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me I know that is poetry.
Emily DickinsonWords mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.
Maya Angelou'Tis easy to write epigrams nicely but to write a book is hard
Marcus AureliusThe best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
George OrwellAll that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas CarlyleFor several days after my first book was published I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
James Matthew BarrieI went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose.
George CarlinThe books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar WildeProvided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.
Jane AustenEarth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John LubbockAll good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Ernest HemingwayThe real war will never get in the books.
Walt WhitmanThe multitude of books is making us ignorant.
VoltaireThrough the media of films, books, music and the behavior of elders, young minds are excited and aroused into indulgences.
Sai BabaBooks are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
ChanakyaThere are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.
Chuck PalahniukThe true university of these days is a collection of books.
Thomas CarlyleNine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Benjamin DisraeliI knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
Carl SandburgThere 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.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
Ernest HemingwayThe best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
Agatha ChristieUntil I became a published writer I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject... they would have spoiled my natural style, made me observe caution, would have hedged me with rules.
Isaac AsimovEvery book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
Stephen KingMen have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree, the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Jane AustenI can tell you honest friend what to believe: believe life, it teaches better that book or orator.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA good novel tells us the truth about its hero, but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert K. ChestertonMy books are like water, those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark TwainI am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand, I teach in order to learn.
Robert FrostSex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
Andy WarholDiscovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.
Chuck PalahniukThere is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away, nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
Emily DickinsonTruth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Mark TwainThe person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.
Jane AustenBooks are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Mark TwainWisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
HoracePractically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book and does.
Groucho MarxSome of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
MoliereAll humanity is passion, without passion religion, history, novels, art, would be ineffectual.
Honore de BalzacI have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me.
Herman HesseNature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
Winston ChurchillIt was not very wonderful that Catherine... should prefer cricket base ball... to books.
Jane AustenEvery time there's a revolution it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
Mike TysonUpon books the collective education of the race depends, they are the sole instruments of registering perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Harry S. TrumanHe that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
Benjamin FranklinWe do not need to proselytise, either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mahatma GandhiBut I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.
Lord ByronCensorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard ShawThe good ended happily and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Oscar WildeI've been asked this question so many times - 'do you feel you need to write a book for adults?' No, I don't need to write a book for adults.
J. K. RowlingThis is an important book the critic assumes because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
Virginia WoolfI wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.
Steven WrightAll books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour and the books of all time.
John RuskinIt ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark TwainA truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading I must finish by acting.
Henry David ThoreauOne always tends to overpraise a long book because one has got through it.
E. M. ForsterBooks are the money of Literature but only the counters of Science.
Thomas HuxleyAt night when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
E. M. ForsterThe chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
Robert FrostI don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin' check clears.
Chuck PalahniukI spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true if once understood.
Max MullerAnd this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees books, in the running brooks sermons, in stones and good in everything.
William ShakespeareThere are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Marcel ProustEvery library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Oliver Wendell HolmesBooks are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Henry Ward BeecherIf 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!
William Makepeace ThackerayA man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Ernest HemingwayHonesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas JeffersonNever lend books for no one ever returns them, the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
Anatole FranceOnce I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long, and the age of the great epics is past.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAnd they write innumerable books, being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation and dodging his emptiness.
T. S. EliotA man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
Doug CouplandThe Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
Patrick HenryA bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Jerry SeinfeldIt's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
Stephen CoveyA scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not everyone that can read in it.
William HazlittThe words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Walt WhitmanHistory books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Anatole FranceThere's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.
Chuck PalahniukBeware of the person of one book.
Thomas AquinasOne sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions to be master of them.
David Herbert LawrenceErudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
Ambrose BierceA room without books is like a body without a soul.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAnother thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.
Mike TysonA single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowWhat we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of lying.
Oscar WildeThere's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.
Dwight L. MoodyI have become infected now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
Carl SandburgBooks are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
Henry David ThoreauBooks are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Joseph AddisonHow long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
John RuskinI'm not really book-smart.
EminemWriting a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement, then it becomes a mistress and then it becomes a master and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him out to the public.
Winston ChurchillWith all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops, or the shelves of holiday houses, to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
J. K. RowlingGetting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.
Erma BombeckWe don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
Carl SandburgLearning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Thomas FullerAnd the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
J. K. RowlingWhat a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
James Russell LowellParadise Lost is a book that once put down is very hard to pick up again.
Samuel JohnsonBooks open your mind, broaden your mind and strengthen you as nothing else can.
William FeatherIf the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?
Jane AustenA book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
Franz KafkaBooks that you carry to the fire and hold readily in your hand are most useful after all.
Samuel JohnsonIf a man writes a book let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar WildeEverything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]
Richard BachBut more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
H. P. LovecraftA book that is shut is but a block.
Thomas FullerSome books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis BaconBad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
George WashingtonA reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man, or a fair man of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.
Joseph AddisonA man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel JohnsonDon't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. EisenhowerAs an old reporter we have a few secrets and the first thing is we try the phone book.
Andy RooneyThe book salesman should be honored, because he brings to our attention as a rule the very books we need most and neglect most.
ConfuciusPublishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.
Paulo CoelhoBooks must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Francis Bacon'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
Lewis CarrollA morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt WhitmanHaving been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
Fran LebowitzI don't read 'chick lit ' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
J. K. RowlingNever loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
Doug CouplandI don't think about who the audience is for my books.
J. K. RowlingIt's very difficult to read a book on your computer.
Paulo CoelhoThe instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours kindle it at home communicate it to others and it becomes the property of all.
VoltaireMy room for books and study, or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular, to see what would happen, was at the end of a hall.
Carl SandburgI don't think I've read any of the books that have been written about me.
Hillary ClintonBooks will speak plain when counselors blanch.
Francis BaconWhat I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.
Chuck PalahniukBooks are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David ThoreauOne whose knowledge is confined to books, and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge, nor wealth, when the need for them arises.
ChanakyaBooks and marriage go ill together.
MoliereBooks can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service, we lay them aside.
Henry David Thoreau