Book Quote by Abraham Cowley

“real books should be the offspring not of daylight and casual talk but of darkness and silence”

— Marcel Proust

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

— Roald Dahl

...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the…

— William Butler Yeats

Books should be both enlightening and entertaining.

— Ravi Subramanian

“Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.

— Daniel Handler

I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way.

— Nick Hornby

The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

— Laurie Anderson

“When I began writing The Night Bookmobile, it was a story about a woman's secret life as a reader. As I worked it also…

— Audrey Niffenegger

To be involved with books is to live at the heart of light.

— Mary Cantwell