Top Books Quotes

I wonder how many books you have read?

It feels great to read but greater to write.

Without books, the world will be void.

The world of book is the stream of souls.

A delight to read is a great treasure.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots...

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

Of all things, I liked books best.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably th...

Cakes are like books: There are new ones you want to read and old favorites you want to reread.

That's what this country needs -- more books!