Top Books Quotes

Dream up a book on Monday, publish it on Friday.

The book is man's best invention so far.

Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice

The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the past and the present, the employment of mind and...

Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.

God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

Reading a book is something you do to yourself.

the art of reading, it occupies your mind no matter at any situation or mood you're in..bringing you to completely different world, the enchanting world of the characters..giving you the best feeling...

Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they experience as desirable or even intimately necessary.

Desire overwhelmed me once she had gone. But it was not a desire for Homer. I had to return to the library. I could already smell the books' muskiness and in my mind turned over pages with as many dif...

If all shy, soulful young women who dreamed of becoming writers for a living actually could do that, imagine the library we would have.

Books signify the mind of many souls.

Good books do not waste our time as most people do... collect a great quantity of books, build alibrary worthy of your noble soul, andspend without stint all the money necessary for it.

A book is just as magical to write as it is to read, it takes you on a journey that changes you in the end.

Can a book make such a difference? Can it change you utterly?I know it can.(First essay from The Book That Changed My Life, edited by Roxanne J. Coady & Joy Johannessen)

I'll have enough books when they fill my room like the stars fill the sky.

Of all the queer sources of romance, ours lay in the discovery that each was an addict of Boswell's Life of Johnson. H.E.G. had a first edition of the Journey to the Hebrides, which I coveted mightily...

If you read stories, you will learn the valuable lessons of life situations, survival and build strength.

I was happy in the library. Walls of printed pages, evidence of so many created worlds--this was a comfort to me.