Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Austin PhelpsTo read too many books is harmful.
Mao ZedongFiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Jessamyn WestWhat gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Wendell PhillipsSome books leave us free and some books make us free.
Ralph Waldo EmersonReaders are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Harriet MartineauReaders are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.
Vladimir NabokovThe world belongs to those who read.
Rick HollandNever judge a book by its movie.
J. W. EaganBooks are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
James Russell LowellWhat is reading, but silent conversation.
Walter Savage LandorReading is a staple of life like bread or water. Or chocolate.
Rett MacPhersonNo tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
Robert FrostA book that is shut is but a block.
Thomas FullerI read part of it all the way through.
Samuel GoldwynBooks must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
Henry David ThoreauO, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
William ShakespeareThere is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI love the smell of book ink in the morning.
Umberto EcoIn science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
Edward George BulwerLyttonThe possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
Anthony BurgessBooks are a uniquely portable magic.
Stephen KingTo buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Arthur SchopenhauerI would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
W. Somerset MaughamTo be a devout reader was to be an acolyte of solace.
Tanya Egan GibsonIf we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
Isaac AsimovIt is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
Lord Henry P. BroughamOur high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
Ralph Waldo EmersonReading is not optional.
Walter Dean MyersLet blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Lord ChesterfieldWe read to know that we are not alone.
William NicholsonReading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Richard SteeleA book is the only immortality.
Rufus ChoateA book worth reading is worth buying.
John RuskinBooks are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Robert ChambersReading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
Edward George BulwerLyttonFor me to see is to read. It has always been that way.
Diane SetterfieldOne man is as good as another until he has written a book.
Benjamin JowettChoose an author as you choose a friend.
Sir Christopher WrenHypocrite reader my fellow my brother!
Charles BaudelaireReading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Mortimer J. AdlerRead much, but not many books.
Benjamin FranklinRead the best books first or else you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David ThoreauRead in order to live.
Gustave FlaubertA good book is an event in my life.
StendhalThere are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) LichtenbergI guess there are never enough books.
John SteinbeckA library is thought in cold storage.
Herbert SamuelA successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
Marshall McLuhanI am a part of everything that I have read.
John KieranWe tell ourselves stories in order to live.
Joan DidionWoe be to him that reads but one book.
George HerbertI can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
Benedict CumberbatchReading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.
Lynne Sharon SchwartzMost books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
Sebastian Roch Nicolas ChamfortThere is no robber worse than a bad book.
Italian ProverbsBaba Yaga ... What are his powers ,Mirror on the wall He reads
Bill WillinghamThe love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.
Patricia DunckerWe become the books we read.
Matthew KellyReading is thinking with someone elses head instead of ones own.
Arthur SchopenhauerShe reads a lot of books. Good things books.
Thorne SmithA wicked book cannot repent.
ProverbsThe reading or non reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Lord (George Gordon) ByronI have read your book and much like it.
Moses HadasEvery man is a volume if you know how to read him.
William Ellery ChanningIts a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.
Tracy ChevalierBooks are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Edwin P. WhippleLive always in the best company when you read.
Sydney SmithWe are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Henry FieldingYou will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
John Lothrop MotleyTo read even in the halfdark is also to call the lost forward.
Gregory MaguireA vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) LichtenbergA vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) LichtenbergThe newest books are those that never grow old.
Holbrook JacksonThe most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.
Michael LipseyKnowledge is like a light that illuminates people; so, keep reading, keep learning.
Slavica Joković, AuthorAs always one of her books was next to her.
Markus ZusakBeware of the person of one book.
Thomas AquinasBoredom is why God invented books.
Julie SchumacherI read in selfdefense.
Woody AllenNext to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Charles Caleb ColtonReading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.
Mary Ann ShafferWhat a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
James Russell LowellObliqueness is the curse of the reading class.
Stephen KingBooks succeed, and lives fail.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningYou can never be wise unless you love reading.
Samuel JohnsonI intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
Edgar Allan PoeThe detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.
Philip GuedallaPeople read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
Barbara KingsolverA person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
Edna St. Vincent MillayHard writing makes easy reading.
Wallace StegnerReading... a vacation for the mind....
Dave BarryBooks are both our luxuries and our daily bread.
Henry StevensReading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.
Source UnknownWho ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
Sir William TempleA writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
Samuel JohnsonTheres nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.
Betty MacDonaldEach book was a world unto itself and in it I took refuge.
Alberto ManguelAhhh. Bed book kitten sandwich. All one needed in life really.
Jacqueline KellyI do not read a book I hold a conversation with the author.
Elbert HubbardI even love the smell of books.
Adriana TrigianiEvery abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
Michel de MontaigneBooks are absent teachers.
Mortimer AdlerOnce you learn to read, you will be forever free
Frederick DouglassPeople love to read about sins and errors but not their own.
Barbara KingsolverSleep is good he said And books are better.
George R.R. MartinReading a book is something you do to yourself.
Last Man StandingI have all the books I could need and what more could I need than books
Catherynne M. ValenteAll books are either dreams or swords.
Amy LowellRead the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David ThoreauThe world was hers for the reading.
Betty SmithReading is a passport to countless adventures.
Mary Pope OsborneI forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
Georg C. LichtenbergI wanted to pull down a book open it proper and gobble up page after page
Laurie Halse AndersonMy life is a reading list.
John Irvinggreat books are the ones we need
Charles BukowskiOf course. You get everything from books.
Gregory MaguireNo furniture is so charming as books.
Sydney SmithGood books are for consideration after too.
Stephen KingIm afraid Ive degenerated into a bibliophile.
Christopher PaoliniIt would be difficult to define the limits of his reading.
Blanche E.C. DugdaleI read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
Margaret AtwoodShe had her addictions and one of them was reading.
Jeannette WallsNovels and gardens she says. I like to move from plot to plot.
Bill RichardsonRead good, big important things.
Peggy NoonanI couldnt convince her that if I had a book with me I wasnt lonely.
Alyxandra HarveyJust handle the books gently and youll get along fine.
Patrick Rothfussan incredibly beautiful read
Seattle Post IntelligencerWe profit little by books we do not enjoy.
John LubbockI cannot live without books.
Thomas JeffersonHe loved books books are cold but safe friends.
Victor HugoHe fed his spirit with the bread of books
Edwin MarkhamOne Lifetime is not enough.
Maurice NorthmoreTheyre book addicts.
Lemony SnicketReading to small children is a specialty.
Clifton FadimanEasy reading is damn hard writing.
Nathaniel HawthorneDeep versed in books and shallow in himself.
John MiltonDenn ich ohne Bcher bin nicht ich.
Christa WolfGo to hell Im reading
Archie GoodwinYoure either reading a book or youre not.
Jonathan FranzenReading one book is like eating one potato chip.
Diane Duane