“Books are like music. Everyone has their own taste and it's not always for everyone.” — Michael Benavidez Copy Share Image
None of us, of course, will ever read all the books we'd like, but we can still make a stab at it. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“You can read as many books as you like, but if you don't adapt what you ready, you will never get there” — Alexander Novicov Copy Share Image
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real. — Rodman Philbrick Copy Share Image
I've always loved reading, and as a child I used to try desperately to write books like the ones I read. — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Some books are like an hors d'oeuvre - light, tasty and leaving you longing for the main course which is never going… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them,… — Laurel Lea Copy Share Image
I have books I like very much, but I don't think there are any books that everyone should read. I prefer a… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
It's because of libraries that books like mine get recommended to book clubs and avid readers, who in turn pass them onto… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
“Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Johnny Got His Gun, A Farewell to Arms, A Prayer for Owen Meany, some years Wuthering Heights, Silas… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
In my class - in all fifth-grade classes - we were required to read 'classics,' books like 'Shiloh,' which is about a… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
Books I like: John McPhee's 'Coming Into the Country,' Michael Herr's 'Dispatches about the Vietnam War,' and Evan S. Connell's 'Son of… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
“Some books you never get over, like a first love. Some books that made an enormous impression on you when you were… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Some books are like chewing gum. They have just enough flavour to sate you for an hour or so. Others are like… — Xio Axelrod Copy Share Image
Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. I… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
