Quotes about Books

The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.

Children will come out and listen to a writer whose books they like. They don't need a government agency or a medal that says 'laureate' to continue that.

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long.

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts to the second, the Epistles to the third, the Revelation.

I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.

There was indeed a " frightful lot" of books. The four walls of the library were plastered with them from floor to ceiling, save only where the door and the two windows insisted on living their own life, even though an illiterate one.