Books Quote by Haruki Murakami

“He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule to never touch a book by any author who…

— Haruki Murakami

“Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Reading a non-fiction book is like a religious experience.”

— Rachel Perry

“My faith in the future of literature rests on the knowledge that there are things that only literature, with its particular capacities, can give…

— Italo Calvino

“I don't believe there are readers and non-readers; I believe there are those who've found the right books and those who haven't--yet!”

— C.C. Payne

“Books are the essence of life. And there is nothing like a good story to pass the time.”

— Victoria Hislop

“But you don't know how to read anymore! When you open a book, you do it in the faith and assurances that you are…

— Philip Wylie

“No book worth reading ever fails to be steeped with the spirit of the person who wrote it.”

— Paul Leicester Ford

“I would probably have to say that reading fiction — those stories fill the space that other people might use religious stories for. The…

— Tom Perrotta

“I have some knowledge of the time that may be misspent, clinging to fictions and supposing them truths.”

— Sarah Waters

“Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it.”

— Marcel Proust

“It is through fiction that we learn not to believe everything we read in print.”

— Ann Mullen