People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.
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...
I enjoy sharing my books as I do my friends, asking only that you treat them well and see them safely home.
She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book...
With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.
A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall. Books perfume and give weight to a room. A bookcase is as good as a view, as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns...
... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it
A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reach, because...
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.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
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.
I wonder how many books you have read?
There so much to learn from a single book.
... And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it.For your writing to come alive--to be multi-dimensional--you must barter away some control.