Book Quote by William Matthews

I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.

— Frances McDormand

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

— Terry Riley

I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge…

— Helen Keller

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

— Stanley Kubrick

Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.

— Harry Golden

“For 99 percent of the tenure of humans on earth, nobody could read or write. The great invention had not yet been made. Except…

— Carl Sagan

I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book

— Jeff Lindsay

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

I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.

— Thomas Jefferson

Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.

— Huston Smith

You cannot open a book without learning something.

— Confucius

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

— Wislawa Szymborska