There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven.

Being poor is only romantic in books..

You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies, What are you when….

Great is bookishness and the charm of books..

At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write..

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David..

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge..

The best thing you can do when you're not feeling funny is go out and get more stimuli from the world, get out and walk around, read a book, go talk ….

Albania was a very isolated country, politically, economically, and culturally. Our only connection to the world was through a radio program called V….

I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three boo….

My first day as an intern in the books department at Cosmopolitan also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced..

I have more confidence than I ever have before..

I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest..

The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they contributed to it….

Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book..

You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book.

I think it's why we're able to look at with comic book stories or origin stories, why is it that we can keep retelling these stories over and over? A….

Always carry a book on a date so that when you get bored you can slip into the Ladies for a read..

I'm getting more famouser by the day!.

The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And yet it behooves us….

Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise.