Accepted Quote by Alberto Manguel

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures…

— Aldous Huxley

“None of the things I have mentioned can make a foolish man wise or a bad book good. But when they are properly used…

— John Russell

“This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time — such as…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part…

— René Descartes

There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it,

— Pliny the Elder

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

— Thomas Carlyle

“No, give me the past. It doesn’t change; it’s all there in black and white, and you can get to know about it comfortably…

— Aldous Huxley

Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything.

— Jay Asher

Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they…

— Janna Malamud Smith

There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.

— Maggie Stiefvater