Quotes on “books”

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

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

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

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

Never Let anyone tell you that you can't; show them that you can.

Reading is reading - no matter what the material.

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.