The pleasure of literature is having it all inside you. It is the one thing that one can have inside oneself.
Books Quotes
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.
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint.
Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
The only two kinds of books that could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
