Book Quote by Scott Spencer

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

— Henry David Thoreau

I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek…

— Orson Scott Card

Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never…

— Aaron Swartz

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.

— Isaac Asimov

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

— Jean Craighead George

A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone.

— Laura Bush

For me, reading has to be pleasurable. Otherwise, I'm ditching the book and turning on Netflix. There's way too much good TV right now…

— Christopher Noxon

Were I to write what I know, the book would be too sensational to print, but were I to write what I think proper,…

— Ina Coolbrith

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial…

— B. F. Skinner

“...learning is not the consequence of teaching or writing, but rather of thinking...so a playful, provocative, unclear but stimulating book could actually be more…

— Brian McLaren

I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books -…

— Salman Rushdie

A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I…

— Henry David Thoreau