You can never have enough books,

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

— Kevin Ansbro

In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded…

— Betsy Lerner

All books are judged by their covers until they are read.

— Maryrose Wood

“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by…

— Marilynne Robinson

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say…

— Kingsley Amis

But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was…

— Kwame Nkrumah

There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

— Anne Bronte

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

— Neil Gaiman

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

— Betsy Lerner

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”

— Markus Herz

It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

— Anna Quindlen

“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

— Christopher K. Krebs

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

— Oscar Wilde