Books - Reading Quotes
182 quotations about Books - Reading
Live always in the best company when you read.
A multitude of books distracts the mind.
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
The age of the book is almost gone.
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.
Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.
Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.
Authors on Books - Reading
Dawn Adams
Mortimer J. Adler
Amos Bronson Alcott
American Proverb
St. Thomas Aquinas
Isaac Asimov
W. H. Auden
Richard Bach
Francis Bacon
E.S. Barrett
Stan Barstow
Charles Baudelaire
Henry Ward Beecher
Hilaire Belloc
Stephen Vincent Benet
Aneurin Bevan
Augustine Birrell
Professor Blackie
Ray Bradbury
Joseph Brodsky