A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
Books Quotes
Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.
Books, the children of the brain.
“We are too civil to books,” wrote Emerson. “For a few Golden sentences we read 400 to 500 pages.” Still he opened every new book with anticipation. He spent his life searching for sentences. Most, of course, came from within – the original thoughts of an original thinker. But he was always ready for any […]
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.
Notice how often today authors will have their picture taken with their book in their left hand, the title in full view of the camera, so that the photograph may tell the story: “Look Ma! My Book!” Television commentators have books on their desks with the title toward the audience so that the audience may […]
The worm thinks it strange and foolish that man does not eat his books.
A best seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
