Books Quotes

"Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read" "A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors" "There is no friend as loyal as a book" "A book should be a ball of light in one's hand." "The best books... are those that tell you what you know already." "A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say" "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library" "Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable." "I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me" "When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it." "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture Just get people to stop reading them" "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries" "Beware the man of a single book." "So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall." "A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return" "Books break the shackles of time proof that humans can work magic" "The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think" "From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it." "What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books" "We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading"