Book Quote by Christopher Morley

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

— Jeremy Collier

Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us…

— Anne Lamott

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a burden to…

— Jeremy Collier

IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as an integral…

— Garrison Keillor

“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The book is an experience that allows you to witness your feelings without having to surrender to them, to succumb to them, or to…

— Michael Silverblatt

“In fact, ladies and gentlemen, I have never read any good book that was not related intimately to at least a score of other…

— Maurice Francis Egan

Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

— Ali Smith

Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and…

— Plutarch

The virtue of books is to be readable.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.

— Julian Barnes

A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you…

— Stephen King