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 HesseYou 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 JeffersonIsn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
Albert EinsteinI 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 WrightI shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane AustenBuying 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.
ConfuciusI 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 DescartesAll that I know about my life it seems I have learned in books.
Jean-Paul SartreThe 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 HemingwayLife isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
Charles Caleb ColtonIt 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 is no end to education. It is not that you read a book pass an examination and finish with education. The whole of life from the moment you are born to the moment you die is a process of learning.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThere 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 HessePeople say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall SmithRomeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
William ShakespeareI 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 KingBooks 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 Bible remained for me a book of books still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
Joseph JoubertLet other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Jane AustenThe best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
George OrwellProvided 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 AustenSex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels, and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
Gore VidalThe best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
Agatha ChristieA good novel tells us the truth about its hero, but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand, I teach in order to learn.
Robert FrostMany 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.
Charles Caleb ColtonIt was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive or who had ever been alive.
James Arthur BaldwinI 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 HesseHe who studies books alone will know how things ought to be and he who studies men will know how they are.
Charles Caleb ColtonBooks like friends should be few and well chosen. Like friends too we should return to them again and again, for like true friends they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
Charles Caleb ColtonEvery book is a quotation, and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries, and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA 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 ThoreauHonesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas JeffersonOnce 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. ChestertonThat is sad, until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
Gore VidalA single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThere was a time when the world acted on books, now books act on the world.
Joseph JoubertBooks are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
Henry David ThoreauI'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually ultimately I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.
Alanis MorissetteWriting 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. RowlingAll of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl SaganBooks constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house for hundreds of years. It is not then an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital and often in the case of professional men setting out in life it is their only capital.
Thomas JeffersonEvery burned book enlightens the world.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAt some point I would like to write a book and other things but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.
Alanis MorissetteBooks are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David Thoreau