“If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“I am a passionate reader. New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until… — Eugene Field Copy Share Image
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“On silent moonless nights, I don't feel lonely! I have my greatest friends - my books for company!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“No serious book lover will ever die having read every book he has managed to collect. This is not a sign of… — James V. Schall Copy Share Image
“One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.” — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me… — Asa Larsson Copy Share Image
I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“When a bookworm finally decides to leave the house, perhaps to explore some literary destination in one of her novels, she will… — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Where's your church?" "We're standing in it." "But this is a bookstore and it's a Friday." "Yes, but you might also choose… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
“The stories had become a part of her by then; they stuck to her bones like a good meal, bloomed inside of… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Whatever you call me, my parents encouraged me to go to college and become a book lover, and to trust that I… — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Anyone who loves books the way Homer does, loves libraries, too. It doesn't matter if the library has fancy red leather chairs… — Suzanne Selfors Copy Share Image
“I keep collecting books I know I'll never, never read; My wife and daughter tell me so, And yet I never heed.… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
“I know it’s highly unusual for people to get this excited over books. But if you’re a reader, you get me .… — Belle Aurora Copy Share Image
It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image