Books Quotes

"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand" "Once you learn to read you will be forever free" "Read in order to live" "We live for books" "Libraries have always seemed to me like the richest places in the world" "Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry" "A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands" "The minute I was bored with a book or a subject I moved to another one, instead of giving myself headaches" "I guess there are never enough books" "One is allowed to change the past, but only in the libraries." "A novel which does not give the utmost satisfaction to its author is an immoral novel" "I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose" "With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?" "I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage." "If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books." "There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts" "There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book" "If you have a garden and a library you have everything you need" "Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity" "112"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of the past centuries"