Books Quote by Aldous Huxley

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is…

— Aldous Huxley

“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

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to…

— Susie Bright

Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live the life…

— Victor Pelevin

“Books had been invented to salve human loneliness, and they were friends without peer, friends who never sneered or flinched or laughed behind a…

— Mary Jo Putney

“Books have been vastly important in my life - as both a reader and a writer. I've learned that the great gift of literature…

— Bob Smith

“Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people's books, one's…

— Aidan Chambers

An acquaintanceship with the literature of the world may be won by any person who will devote half an hour a day to the…

— John Andreas Widtsoe

This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in…

— Rachel Joyce

Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated,…

— Thomas S. Monson

Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.

— Alexandra Petri

“...books change lives, in big ways and small, from the simple desire to spend a few quiet hours in a comfy chair, swept away…

— Roxanne J. Coady