Books Quotes

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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 best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you,...

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.

To read is to empower,To empower is to write,To write is to influence,To influence is to change,To change is to live".

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.

So many books, so little time.

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