If you only ever read one book in your life, I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut.
Books Quotes
Beware the person of one book.
You say you need another bookcase? Well, of course you need another bookcase. If you didn’t need another bookcase, you wouldn’t be worth knowing.
I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude.
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
I don’t believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don’t want to. That’s something that you just want to take on trust. It’s a classic… something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
