The only two kinds of books that could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
Books Quotes
A man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
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.
Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child.
People buy books to own knowledge and have others see them as people of knowledge.
There’s nothing to match curling up with a good book when there’s a repair job to be done around the house.
As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.
