A book is a device to ignite the
imagination. - Alan Bennett
A book is a
garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a
multitude of counselors. - Henry Ward Beecher
A book is a gift you can open
again and again. - Garrison Keillor
A book is like a
garden carried in a pocket. - Chinese Proverb
A
book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought
without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it
will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where
a man’s mind can get both provocation and privacy. -
Edward P. Morgan
A book is
valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes
you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to
teach you, help you, guide you. - Louis L'Amour
A book reads the better which is
our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its
blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea
with buttered muffins. - Charles Lamb
A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us. - J. M. Coetzee
A
book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness,
leading out into the expanding universe. -
Madeleine
L’Engle
A book worth reading is worth
buying. - John Ruskin
A bookshelf is as particular to its
owner, as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as
a shoe is shaped by the foot. -Alan Bennett
A good book is never exhausted. It
goes on whispering to you from the wall. Books perfume and give weight to a
room. A bookcase is as good as a view, as the sight of a city or a river. There
are dawns and sunsets in books – storms, fogs, and zephyrs. Reading a book is
only the first step in the relationship. After you have finished it, the book
enters on its real career. It stands there as a badge, a monument. The contents
of someone’s bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. - Unknown
A good book is
the best of friends, the same today and forever. - Martin Farquhar Tupper
A good book is the precious
lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life
beyond life. - John Milton
A good book is the purest essence of a human soul. - Thomas Carlyle
A good book praises itself. - German Proverb
A great book should leave you with
many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while
reading it. - William Styron
A good book, in the language of the booksellers, is a saleable one; in
the language of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful
and instructful one.- Eliza Cook
A
home without books is a body without soul. To add a library to a house is to
give that house a soul. - Cicero
A house without books is like a
room without windows. - Horace Mann
A library is a repository of medicine for the mind. - Greek
Proverb
A man’s bookcase will tell you everything you’ll ever need to know about
him. - Walter Mosley
A
man is known by the books he reads. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A truly great book should be read in youth,
again in maturity and once more in old age. - Robertson Davies
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. If you can get so that you
can give that to people, then you are a writer. - Ernest
Hemingway
Anyone who says
they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. - Unknown
At night, when
the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective
dignity. - E.M.Forster
Beware of the
man of one book. - Saint
Thomas Aquinas
Book are a uniquely portable magic. - Stephen King
Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most
part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly
wisdom, glitter, dash and style. - Jonathan
Raban
Books
are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. - Chanakya
Books are embalmed minds. They make the great of other days our present
teachers. - Christian Nestell Bovee
Books are my friends, my companions. They make me
laugh and cry and find meaning in life. - Christopher
Paolini
Books are the bees which carry the quickening
pollen from one to another mind. - James
Russell Lowell
Books
are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature
dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. - Barbara Tuchman
Books 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 Addidson
Books
are the liberated spirits of men. -
Mark Twain
Books are masters who
instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or
money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not
hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh
at you. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Books are the mirrors of the soul. - Virginia Woolfe
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside
you. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Books are not
made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a
house. - Henry Ward Beecher
Books are hindrances to persisting
stupidity. - Spanish Proverb
Books are not
about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting
time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. - Alan Bennett
Books are the best friends you can
have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back. - John
Steinbeck
Books are the
building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without
history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or
woman. - Louis L'Amour
Books are the
plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey.
They are home. - Anna
Quindlen
Books
are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the
refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad;
companions by night, in traveling, in the country. - Cicero
Books are the
perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an
instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by
mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold
drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry
about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and
never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party. - Louis L'Amour
Books are the training weights of the mind. - Epictetus
Books are the quietest and most
constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors,
and the most patient of teachers. - Charles W. Eliot
Books are those faithful mirrors
that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. - Edward Gibbon
Books come at my call and return
when I desire them; they are never out of humour and they answer all my
questions with readiness. Some present in review before me the events of past
ages; others reveal to me the secrets of Nature. These teach me how to live,
and those how to die; these dispel my melancholy by their mirth, and amuse me
by their sallies of wit. Some prepare my soul to suffer everything, to desire
nothing, and to become thoroughly acquainted with itself. In a word, they open
the door to all the arts and sciences. - Petrarca Petrarch
Books have to be
read. It is the only way of discovering what they contain. - E.M.Forster
Books
open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can. - William Feather
Books serve to show a man that those original
thoughts of his aren’t very new after all. - Abraham Lincoln
Books support us in
our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. - Jeremy Collier
Books
worth reading once are worth reading twice; and what is most important of all,
the masterpieces of literature are worth reading a thousand times. - Unknown
Books, 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 Colton
Books!
The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the
aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have
caught and fixed bright images of souls that have passed away; like
magic lyres, whose masters have bequeathed them to the world, and
which yet, of themselves, ring with unforgotten music, while the
hands that touched their chords have crumbled into dust. Books! they
are the embodiments and manifestations of departed minds – the
living organs through which those who are dead yet speak to us. - E.
H. Chapin
Do not judge a book by
its cover. - Unknown
Do you wish to
learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper
form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came
from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses,
ships, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far
from a book. - Louis L'Amour
Due attention to the
inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation
between a man of sense and his books. - Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of
Chesterfield
Every
book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person
who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it.
Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes
down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. - Carlos Ruiz
Zafon
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the
realm of reality. - Jorge Luis Borges
Each time we re-read a
book we get more out of it because we put more into it; a different person is
reading it, and therefore it is a different book. - Murial Clark
Every
few seconds a new book sees the light of day. Most of them will just
be a part of the hum that makes us hard of hearing. Even the book is
becoming an instrument of forgetting. A truly literary work comes
into being as its creator’s cry of protest against the forgetting
that looms over him, over his predecessors and his contemporaries
alike, and over his time, and the language he speaks. A literary work
is something that defies death. - Ivan
Klima
Everywhere I have sought rest and
not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book. - Arthur
Helps
Few
things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds
its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we
think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and
sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later – no matter
how many books we read, how many worlds we discover or how much we
learn or forget – we will return. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
For books are more than books,
they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men
worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. - Amy Lowell
For
every good book is worth the reader's while when there is a real
communion of the spirit, and this is possible only when he feels he
is being taken into the author's confidence and the author is willing
to reveal to him the innermost searchings of his heart and talk, as
it were, in an unbuttoned mood, collar and tie loose, as by a
friend's fireside. - Lin Yutang
For one who
reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction,
biography and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in all periods of
time. - Louis L'Amour
For
some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth.
What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of
paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you,
comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are
and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship
mean; they show us how to live and die. - Anne Lamott
Give a man a
book he can read, And his home is bright with a calm delight, Though the room
be poor indeed. - Alfred Dunhill
Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand
books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has
read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed. - Anne Rice
Good
books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing
rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts
of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse
than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life. -
Horace Mann
He who possesses good books without gaining any
profit from them, is like an ass that carries a rich burden and feeds upon
thistles. - John Thorton
How many good books suffer neglect through the
inefficiency of their beginnings! - Edgar
Allan Poe
I always assume that a good book is more
intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware
of. - Umberto Eco
I
am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding
it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then,
perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and
empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have. - Doris Lessing
I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and
reading it only once. - C. S. Lewis
I
consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and
they help us to become poets or scientists, to understand the stars
or else to discover them deep within the aspirations of certain
characters, those who sometimes, on certain evenings, escape from the
pages and walk among us humans, perhaps the most human of us all. -
Jose Saramago
I feel that books, just like people, have a
destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both. - Elie Wiesel
I
lived in books more than I live anywhere else. - Neil Gaiman
I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that
perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I want to do something splendid ... something
heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead ... I think I shall
write books. - Louisa May Alcott
If
books are not good company, where will I find it? -
Mark Twain
If 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 Hazlitt
If you only read the books that everyone else is
reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. - Haruki Murakami
If you would understand your own age, read the
works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely. - Arthur Helps
In a
good book room you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the
wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
- Mark Twain
In books we never find anything but ourselves.
Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is
a genius. - Thomas Mann
In perusing the writings of sensible men, we have
frequent opportunities of examining our own hearts, and by that means, of
attaining a more certain knowledge of ourselves. - Wellins Calcott
In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly
with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.
- Edgar Allan Poe
In
the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get
through, but how many can get through to you. - Mortimer Jerome Adler
It does not
matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have. - Seneca
It
had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story
books had been written by people, that books were not natural
wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where
they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with
them – with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper
they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with
their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. -
Eudora
Welty
It is chiefly through books that
we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to
us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. - William
Ellery Channing
It
is only a novel ... or, in short, only some work in which the
greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough
knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties,
the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world
in the best-chosen language. - Jane Austen
It
is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which
lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more the
better, that it is almost as difficult to wean ourselves from it as
from the habit of chewing tobacco to excess, or of smoking the whole
time, or of depending for stimulus upon tea or coffee or spirits. -
Charles Francis Adams
It is quite too common a practice, both in readers
and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a
matter much easier to determine than what it is. - James Russell Lowell
It
is with books as with new acquaintances. At first, we are highly
delighted, if we find a general agreement – we are pleasantly moved
on any of the chief sides of our existence. With a closer
acquaintance differences come to light; and then reasonable conduct
mainly consists in not shrinking back at once, as may happen in
youth, but in keeping firm hold of the things in which we agree, and
being quite clear about the things in which we differ, without on
that account desiring any union. - Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than
bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit in selling you books, but
libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their
hearts. - Jo Walton
Man,
that’s the only kind of book I like – one that’s so real you
want to find out everything there is to know about the person who
wrote it, like how tall he is and what kind of music he likes and
whether or not he really went through all the stuff he was writing
about. - Adam Rapp
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. - Charles Colton
Many
people, other than the authors, contribute to the making of a book,
from the first person who had the bright idea of alphabetic writing
through the inventor of movable type to the lumberjacks who felled
the trees that were pulped for its printing. It is not customary to
acknowledge the trees themselves, though their commitment is total. -
Forsyth and Rada
Men do not understand books until
they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep
book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. - Ezra
Pound
My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures,
like finding wild onions by the side of the road, or requited love. - Tracy Letts
Next to acquiring good
friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. - Charles
Colton
No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through
books. - Romain Rolland
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even
unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. - Charles
Dickens
No two persons ever read the same book, or saw the
same picture. - Madame Swetchne
Of all the needs a
book has the chief need is that it be readable. - Anthony Trollope
Of
all things, I like books best. - Nikola Tesla
Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous,
and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to
acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth
reading. - Amos Bronson Alcott
One always tends
to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. - E.M.Forster
One must always be careful of books ... and what is
inside them, for words have the power to change us. - Cassandra Clare
One reads books in order to gain the privilege of
living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft,
even if they think the sun is shining. - Garrison
Keillor
One who
believes all of a book would be better off without books. - Mencius
One's
life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human
beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second
hand. Even if we have the happy chance to fall in love, it is because
we have been conditioned by what we have read, and if I had never
known love at all, perhaps it was because my father's library had not
contained the right books. - Graham Greene
Parents should leave books lying around marked
"forbidden" if they want their children to read. - Doris Lessing
Read
the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. - Henry David Thoreau
Reading useless books is like sowing bad seed –
your trouble does not reward you. - Edward
Counsel
Second
hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast
flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes
of the library lack. - Virginia Woolf
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are
undeservedly remembered. - W.H.
Auden
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. - Francis
Bacon
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 that
book. - John Green
That is a good book which is opened with
expectation and closed with profit. - Amos
Bronson Alcott
The best books are those which lift us to a higher
plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere. - Orison Swett Marden
The best of a
book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our
hearts. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Bible is the most obscure book in the world. He must be a great fool who thinks he understands the plainest chapter of it. - Coventry Patmore
The
book itself is a curious artefact, not showy in its technology but
complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device,
compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last
decades, even centuries. It doesn't have to be plugged in, activated,
or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a
human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It
lasts. It is reliable. If a book told you something when you were
fifteen, it will tell it to you again when you're fifty, though you
may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole
new book. - Ursula
K. Le Guin
The book which bores you when you are twenty or
thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty – and vice versa. - Doris Dressing
The book you don’t read won’t help. -
Jim Rohn
The books that charmed us in youth recall the
delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any
deserving our equal affections. - Amos Bronson
Alcott
The books that help you most are
those which make you think the most. - Theodore Parker
The books that
the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. - Oscar Wilde
The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if the ideas contained in the book are disappearing as the pages turn to ashes and the cover and binding – which is the term for the stitching and glue that holds the pages together – blacken and curl as the flames do their wicked work. When someone is burning a book, they are showing utter contempt for all of the thinking that produced its ideas, all of the labour that went into its words and sentences, and all of the trouble that befell the author. - Daniel Handler
The first time I read an excellent
work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book
I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. - George
Gissing
The great book for you is the book
that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not
mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. - Robertson
Davies
The greatest advantage of books does not always
come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness. A good book
often serves as a match to light the dormant power within us. - Orison Swett Marden
The
greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the
brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape,
but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from
writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various
essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest
to forest. - Romain Rolland
The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. - Pablo Neruda
The
history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most
valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials by persons
whose names thereafter became illustrious. The thumbed volumes, now
so precious to thousands, were compiled from personal experiences and
owe their interest to touches of inspiration of which the writer was
less author than amanuensis, himself the voiced word of life for all
times. - Amos Bronson Alcott
The
images of men’s wits and
knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the
minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in
succeeding ages. - Francis Bacon
The inspiration of a single book has made
preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the
demoralization of a single book has sometimes made infidels, profligates, and
criminals. - Orison Swett Marden
The man who is fond of books is
usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions. - John Dawkins
The majority of the books of our time give one the
impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day
before. - Chamfort
The only books
that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a
little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. - E.M.Forster
The only power
source a book needs is you. If you have to leave for a few minutes you have not
lost the story. It is waiting for you when you return. You can pick up a book
and resume reading at any time, after a few minutes, a few days, even a few
years. A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is
waiting. - Louis L'Amour
The plainest row of books that cloth or paper ever
covered is more significant of refinement than the most elaborately carved furniture.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The
popular books are the novels, dealing with life under all possible
conditions, and they are widely read not only because they are
entertaining, but also because they in a measure satisfy an
unformulated belief that to see farther, to know all sorts of men, in
an indefinite way, is a preparation for better social adjustment –
for the remedying of social ills. - Jane Addams
The profit of books is according
to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as
in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson
The
prosperity of a book lies in the minds of readers. Public knowledge
and public taste fluctuate; and there come times when works which
were once capable of instructing and delighting thousands lose their
power, and works, before neglected, emerge into renown. - George
Henry Lewes
The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted
dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies. - Andre Maurois
The sight of books removes sorrows from the heart.
- Moroccan Proverb
The
sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity
any more than any other sincere love. It is a quality of character, a
freshness, a power of pleasure, a power of faith. A silly person may
delight in reading masterpieces just as a silly person may delight in
picking flowers. A fool may be in love with a poet as he may be in
love with a woman. - G. K. Chesterton
The stitch of a book is its words.
- Rumer Godden
The thing one reads and likes, and then forgets, is
of no account. The thing that stays, and haunts one, and refuses to be
forgotten, that is the sincere thing. - Thomas
Bailey Aldrich
The
things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who’ll get me a
book I haven’t read. - Abraham
Lincoln
The worth of a book is
to be measured by what you can carry away from it. - James Bryce
There are books of which the backs and covers are
by far the best parts. - Charles Dickens
There are many, many types of books in the world,
which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and
everybody wants to read something different. - Daniel Handler
There are some books that reached through the noise
of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things. - Jeffrey Eugenides
There is more
treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island and best of
all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life. - Walt Disney
There is no book so bad that it is
not profitable in some part. - Pliny the Younger
There is no mistaking a real book
when one meets it. It is like falling in love. - Christopher Morley
There
is no substitute for books in the life of a child. - May Ellen Chase
There is no such
thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
That is all. - Oscar Wilde
There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love
over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in
a way that words in a book you've read only once can't. - Gail Carson Levine
These are not books, lumps of
lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its
own voice and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with
music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into
range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking
to us, mind to mind, heart to heart. - Gilbert Highet
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
To buy books as some do who make no use of them,
only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man
should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some
famous tailor. - Alexander Pope
Unless their use by readers bring
them to life, books are indeed dead things. - Lawrence Clark Powell
We forget that the simple gesture of putting
a book in someone’s hands can change a life. I want to thank you because it
did. - Kate DiCamilo
We may sit in our library and yet be in all
quarters of the earth. - John Lubbock
We should use a book as a bee does a flower. - Eliza Cook
Wear the old coat and buy the new
book. - Austin
Phelps
What
could be better, really, than to sit by the fire in the evening with
a book, while the wind beats against the windowpanes, and the lamp
burns?... You forget everything ... and hours go by. Without moving,
you walk through lands you imagine you can see, and your thoughts,
weaving in and out of the story, delight in the details or follow the
outlines of the adventures. You merge with the character; you think
you're the one whose heart is beating so hard within the clothes he's
wearing. - Gustave
Flaubert
What I say is, a town isn't a town without a
bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore, it knows
it's not fooling a soul. - Neil Gaiman
What makes the success of many books consists in
the affinity there is between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of
the public. - Chamfort
When a book raises
your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other
test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman. - Jean De La
Bruyere
When
you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge
deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different
countries, mores, speech patterns – but what you are essentially
doing is furthering your understanding of life’s subtleties,
paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate
but symbiotic. - Julian Barnes
When
you’re reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any
given plot turns out is that you take it as a data point in the big
story of how the world works. Does such-and-such a kind of guy get
the girl in the end? Does adultery ever bring happiness? How do
winners become winners? - Elif Batuman
You cannot open a book without
learning something. - Confucius
You can't tell a book by its cover. - American
Proverb
You don't have to burn books to
destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. - Mahatma Gandhi
You
know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as
if you have lost a friend. - Paul Sweeney
Your library is your portrait. - Holbrook
Jackson
