Books Quotes
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.
I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.
An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.
I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
Buying 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.
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.
Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
I 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.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
