Quotes on Books And Reading

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Beware of the person of one book.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

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

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.