A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
- Albert Camus
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
- Francis Bacon
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
- Oscar Wilde
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
- Bell Hooks
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
- Bert Williams
There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book, and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Oh that my words were now written! on that they were printed in a book!
- Bible
Never read any book that is not a year old.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
- C C Colton
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
- John Milton
If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.
- Bertrand Russell
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
- Kathleen Norris
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers.
- Charles W Eliot
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
- Cicero
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.
- Bible
Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.
- Ernest Dimnet
Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
- Bill Watterson
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
- Elizabeth Hardwick
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
- Francis Bacon
The newest books are those that never grow old.
- Holbrook Jackson
Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.
- Walter Pitkin
A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A single book at the right time can change our views dramatically, give a quantum boost to our knowledge, help us construct a whole new outlook on the world and our life. Isn't it odd that we don't seek those experiences more systematically?
- Steve Leveen
Never judge a book by its movie.
- J W Eagan
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
- Harold Bloom
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 Caleb Colton
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.
- Umberto Eco
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books
- Katherine Mansfield
Truly, associating with bad books is often more dangerous than associating with bad people.
- Wilhelm Hauff
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
- Mark Twain
Worthy books Are not companions--they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.
- Philip James Bailey
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
- Robert Chambers
Books... are like movies in your mind, only with better special effects.
- J. Millard Simpson
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
- Sir Christopher Wren
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
- Stephen Vincent Benet
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
- Theodore Parker
The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.
- Thomas Carlyle
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
- W H Auden
If you want to improve the world, first improve yourself. If you want to improve yourself, read a book.
- J. Millard Simpson
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
- Martin Farquhar Tupper
