Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life. — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island... — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times... — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
“It has always been a great comfort to me that I could bring a book anywhere, to any place. To any part… — Anton DiSclafani Copy Share Image
The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed… — William Gerhardie Copy Share Image
Reading is actually plunging into one's own identity and, one hopes, emerging stronger than before. You see, unconsciously, we are seeking to… — Amalia Kahana-Carmon Copy Share Image
whatever you do, find ways to read poerty. Eat it, drink it, enjoy it, and share it. — Eve Merriam Copy Share Image
The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information. — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. — Confucius Copy Share Image
I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison. — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins. — Jonathan Daniels Copy Share Image
The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath,… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
