Books Reading Quotes

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of a well-read man?

Forget the past, think of future, remember God's goodness and His power and ability to take you to where you ought to be and establish you.

Why wait for the movie tomorrow, when you can read the book today!

For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.

All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

Books are the most mannerly of companions accessible at all times in all moods frankly declaring the author's mind without offense.

Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves to multiply the ways in which they exist to make their life full significant and interesting.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the even more refined accomplishments of skipping and skimming.

Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.

The dust and silence of the upper shelf.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing the whole point is knowing what to read.

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

'Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable and for me that always sort of spoils a book.

You should read it though there is much that is skip-worthy.

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

Properly we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A (best-seller) is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.

The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.

Laws die books never.

Master books but do not let them master you. Read to live not live to read.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening seldom sinful and permanently personal.

Never lend books - nobody ever returns them the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

Book lovers never go to bed alone.

It circulated for five years through the halls of fifteen publishers and finally ended up with Vanguard Press which as you can see is rather deep into the alphabet.

The first book of the nation is the dictionary of its language.

First publication is a pure carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is there reading makes it more.

A good book has no ending.

Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book!

The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.

In the case of good books the point is not to see how many of them you can get through but rather how many can get through to you.

Books think for me.

Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me but that of books most of all.

I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.

If a book is worth reading it is worth buying.

Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it and have not reached my goal.

I do not know any reading more easy more fascinating more delightful than a catalogue.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.

Reading like prayer remains one of our few private acts.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time with my eyes hanging out.

A publisher is somebody looking for someone who has something to say.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them: those we spent with a favourite book.

If you would understand your own age read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

The walls of books around him dense with the past formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

There are still a few of us booklovers around despite the awful warnings of Marshall McLuhan with his TV era and his pending farewell to Gutenberg.