Quotes on Book

And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain. Therefore, Farewell.

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead.

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books.

The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2)

In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back.

A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good that way.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.