Top Books Quotes

We could have all been killed -or worse, expelled.

when the press and problems of humanity become too much, I love to escape into books, where people are served up in digestible portions and can be pushed to one side when one is satiated.

A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge.

You should read it though there is much that is skip-worthy.

Literature is news that stays news.

A dictionary should be descriptive not prescriptive.

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

Ali Baba protects the lovers! Gives them the luck of bandits, and no guilt, for love fills certain people and expands them beyond all laws; there is no time, no place for regrets, hesitations, cowardi...

I look over at my hero shelf and see Philip Levine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf, Shunryu Suzuki, Adrienne Rich, Pablo Neruda, Subcomandante Marcos, Eduardo Galeano, James Baldwin. These books a...

I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.

I wanted to live among books.

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

School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that I remain thankful. I would have died otherwise. As soon as I was able, I read, alone. Under the cov...

We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the books, at every title he discovered he let out exclamations of happiness, either...

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

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.