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 ColtonA 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 EmersonIsn'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 AustenThe love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
Arthur Conan DoyleIn 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 TomlinI love story songs because I've always loved books.
Dolly PartonEvery 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 RuskinWhen 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 HesseIt 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 KrishnamurtiThe 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 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 LowellYou’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
Dr. SeussThe 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 SantayanaIf I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand before I mix with other people, otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
Anne FrankA 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 FranceLiterature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides, and in this respect it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C. S. LewisJudge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius is above all force.
Gustave FlaubertA 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 HazlittThe 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 JoubertThis 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 ZappaTo buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Arthur SchopenhauerHow pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare, after all, there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!
Jane AustenI 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 DickinsonImagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert EinsteinThe books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar WildeAll good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Ernest HemingwayThe difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar WildeThere 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. ChestertonA 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 TwainTruth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Mark TwainAll humanity is passion, without passion religion, history, novels, art, would be ineffectual.
Honore de BalzacThe good ended happily and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Oscar WildeHonesty 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 FranceHistory books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Anatole FranceWhat we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of lying.
Oscar WildeWriting 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. Rowling