Books Quotes
Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.
And what is the use of a book, " thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?
...Fritz Leiber, the great fantasist and science fiction writer...called books 'the scholar's mistress'...the one who made no demands and always took him in...
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.
As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.
This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously.
The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.