Book Quote by Anna Brackett

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all

— Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library, and you…

— Elizabeth Berg

You read best what you read most.

— Zuzana Licko

Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.

— Anonymous

There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and…

— Agnes Repplier

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except…

— Anonymous

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them,…

— Rene Descartes

Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

— Edward Abbey

I've always loved literature, and the best books I read were always trilogies.

— Dawn Angelique

Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious…

— Karl Marlantes

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.

— Anna Quindlen

I read hard, or not at all; never skimming, never turning aside to merely inciting books; and Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides, Sterne, Jonathan Edwards,…

— Frederick William Robertson