Quotes on Book Reading

There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East.

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.

I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.

Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.