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.
~ Clifton Fadiman
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.
~ Ezra Pound
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.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.
~ Gertrude Stein
Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
~ Albert Einstein
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
~ Northrop Frye
Literature is news that stays news.
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
~ Kathleen Norris
Laws die books never.
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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.
~ John Milton
Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening seldom sinful and permanently personal.
~ Lenore Hershey
Never lend books - nobody ever returns them the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.
~ Anatole France
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
~ Lytton Strachey
A dictionary should be descriptive not prescriptive.
~ Phillip Babcock Gove
Book lovers never go to bed alone.
~ Anonymous
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.
~ Patrick Dennis
The first book of the nation is the dictionary of its language.
~ Contanitin
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
~ Stendhal
I read part of it all the way through.
~ Sam Goldwyn
A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
~ Marshall Mcluhan
First publication is a pure carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.
~ Hortense Calisher
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is there reading makes it more.
~ John Harington
A good book has no ending.
~ R. D. Dimming
I hate books they teach us only to talk about what we do not know.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
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.
~ Charles Lamb
Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true.
~ Samuel Johnson
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.
~ William Dean Howells
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.
~ Samuel Butler
One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
~ Benjamin Jowett
If a book is worth reading it is worth buying.
~ John Ruskin
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
~ Arthur Helps
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it you can't expect an apostle to look out.
~ G. C. Lichtenberg
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
~ Mark Twain
