Top Books Quotes

We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because there`s no need to talk, or because it takes time to distill what we've read before we can...

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

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

I enjoy sharing my books as I do my friends, asking only that you treat them well and see them safely home.

A precious, mouldering pleasure 't isTo meet an antique bookIn just the dress his century wore;A privilege, I think,His venerable hand to take,And warming in our own,A passage back, or two, to makeTo...

Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.

But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual romps have to endure the paradox of reading the Ancients in expur...

I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book.

....her life would be a giddy crossword, working down from some clues and across from others.

Stories, A Portal to Anywhere but Here.

The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to be morally good, but it is not considered m...

The books I would like to print are the books I love to read and keep.

It takes a great reader to make a great book.

What's life without a little risk?

You know that feeling when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing close around the characters who live an...

I'm not saying that you have to be a reader to save your soul in the modern world. I'm saying it helps.

Books and spiritual blessings are the greatest soul food

I don't just write books. I climb inside and live there.

Make a new friend by picking up a book and getting to know it!

Writing "Snugs the Snow Bear" was an exhilerating walk on a beach - I stopped now and then to study the rock pools, put my hand to my forehead, to gaze over the vast ocean, and the tide danced; played...