Book Quote by Henry David Thoreau

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of…

— Henry David Thoreau

I think I always have many ideas for books in my head. It's like a forest full of mushrooms. Some are big, some are…

— Olga Tokarczuk

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of…

— Oswald Chambers

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

— Carl Sagan

“Brrr, who had never admired books particularly...didn't remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe…

— Gregory Maguire

Good books are like friends which are deep and meaningful and you love to spend time with them.

— Ritu Ghatourey

A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others…

— David Suzuki

“When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after…

— Salman Rushdie

“More recently, books, especially paperbacks, have been printed in massive and inexpensive editions. For the price of a modest meal you can ponder the…

— Carl Sagan

“Some books are like chewing gum. They have just enough flavour to sate you for an hour or so. Others are like gourmet meals.…

— Xio Axelrod

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally…

— Henry David Thoreau