Top Books Quotes

Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had the time, and since you hadn't you are glad that someone else had, although obvious...

I love to read for my pleasure.

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

Literature is light.

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

You're never alone when you're reading a book.

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it

... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.

I hate books they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow on the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us...

I had spent the dayfriendless, lonely and sad,a stranger to myself.After drowning the dayon the sea shore,I walked backto my empty houseon the deserted street.The momentI opened the door,the book on m...

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

My mother was an avid reader...She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes...

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one.

Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

The only things that erased my lonliness were written works

And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because...