Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
Books Quotes
Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
Waverley drove through the sea of books, like a vessel without a pilot or a rudder.
He was inspired, and yet he wants books! He had been preaching for thirty years, and yet he wants books! He had seen the Lord, and yet he wants books! He had a wider experience than most men do, and yet he wants books! He had been caught up into the third heaven, and had […]
It was a mighty nice family, and a mighty nice house, too… There was some books too, piled up perfectly exact, on each corner of the table. One was a big family Bible, full of pictures. One was “Pilgrim’s Progress,” about a man that left his family it didn’t say why. I read considerable in […]
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
The pleasure of literature is having it all inside you. It is the one thing that one can have inside oneself.
Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammer.
The big advantage of a book is it’s very easy to rewind. Close it and you’re right back at the beginning.
