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

Haruki Murakami
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Oscar Wilde
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Stephen King
Books are a uniquely portable magic.

William Shakespeare
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Ray Bradbury
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Mark Twain
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Francis Bacon
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Stephen King
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

Thomas Jefferson
I cannot live without books.

Roald Dahl
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. Then fill the shelves with lots of books.

Alice Hoffman
Books may well be the only true magic.

Daphne du Maurier
But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

Stephen King
Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

Jhumpa Lahiri
That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

Louisa May Alcott
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

J. K. Rowling
Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

Umberto Eco
We live for books.

Virginia Woolf
Books are the mirrors of the soul.

Edward Gorey
Books. Cats. Life is Good.

Cornelia Funke
Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

Mark Twain
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

John Waters
If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!

Oscar Wilde
With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

J. K. Rowling
I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Dave Eggers
Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Jorge Luis Borges
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

J. K. Rowling
One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.

Charles Dickens
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Katherine Mansfield
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Umberto Eco
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Anthony Powell
I get a warm feeling among my books.

Neil Gaiman
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

Robert Louis Stevenson
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Cornelia Funke
Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books

Neil Gaiman
I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

Oscar Wilde
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

Abraham Lincoln
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

Stephen Fry
Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

Joseph Joubert
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Orhan Pamuk
Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wilde's books in a bookshop makes me smile.

Gore Vidal
How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.

Jules Verne
We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

Malcolm X
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Marilyn Monroe
Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.

Bette Midler
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
Orhan Pamuk
When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
Orhan Pamuk
I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write because I want to read books like the ones I write. I write because I am angry at everyone. I write because I love sitting in a room all day writing. I write because I can partake of real life only by changing it.

Hilaire Belloc
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Ray Bradbury
There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.
August Wilson
I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months.
Margaret Atwood
If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can't, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you'd be a very strange person indeed.

Khaled Hosseini
Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

Neil Gaiman
Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

Norman Mailer
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

Henry David Thoreau
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Neil Gaiman
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

Mario Vargas Llosa
Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...

Orhan Pamuk
I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.

Orhan Pamuk
When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author.

Ansel Adams
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

Neil Gaiman
Books were safer than other people anyway.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Orhan Pamuk
The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these books from time to time to remember how a great book works on us or to teach my students at Columbia University.

Henry David Thoreau
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Orhan Pamuk
Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.

Meg Cabot
Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks

Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

Ezra Pound
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

Amy Sedaris
Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

John Keats
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

John Steinbeck
I guess there are never enough books.

R. L. Stine
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.

Virginia Woolf
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

Hermann Hesse
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Margaret Atwood
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

Dan Brown
To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.

Charles Lamb
Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

Voltaire
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

Ray Bradbury
The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.

Franz Kafka
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

Toni Morrison
And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.

Franz Kafka
Books are a narcotic.

Amy Sedaris
I like to make things, but I looked at old craft books on weaving or mosaics or whatever, I'm like, 'I don't really know anything about that stuff.'

Cornelia Funke
Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you secruity and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

E. B. White
All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

Amy Sedaris
I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop.

Anne Rice
Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

John Waters
It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

Cornelia Funke
It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

Haruki Murakami
I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

Kurt Vonnegut
There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

William Faulkner
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Thurgood Marshall
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

Steven Spielberg
I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.

Louisa May Alcott
I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.