Quotes and sayings about tag  books

444 Quotes

Reading is reading - no matter what the material.

Giovanna Fletcher

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Groucho Marx

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

Günter Grass

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

Gustave Flaubert

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Gustave Flaubert

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

Guy de Maupassant

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

H.P. Lovecraft

What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.

Hanya Yanagihara

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Harold Bloom

With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

Haruki Murakami

There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.

Haruki Murakami

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

Heinrich Heine

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Helen Keller

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