Books Quote by George Orwell

“in 1946 in cheap editions. A special edition was published during the Second World”

— Dennis Kincaid

“Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both continents would not…

— William Henry Channing

“Here then we are first to consider a book, presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people, written in an age when they…

— David Hume

“That's my point: if you own thirty or more books, or you are reading any book at this moment, you may protest all you…

— Thomas Geoghegan

“If I have not read a book before, it is for all intents and purposes new to me whether it was printed yesterday or…

— William Haizlett

“And everywhere, everywhere, there were books. Not the tidy stacks of an intellectual attempting to impress, but the slumping piles of a scholar obsessed.…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“If you found this book in the New Age section of your local bookstore, it was grossly misshelved, and you should put it down…

— Mary Roach

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

“Writing is like crawling across the desert- with each publication being an oasis.”

— R.S. Lehner

“The world of books is still the world.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“In the universal library, no book will be an island. It’s all connected.”

— Kevin Kelly

“I have often been mildly amused when I think that the great American novel was not written about New England or Chicago. It was…

— James A. Michener