Where is human nature so weak
as in the bookstore?
-Henry Ward Beecher
The good of a book
lies in its being read.
-Umberto Eco
as in the bookstore?
-Henry Ward Beecher
So many books,
so little time.
-Frank Zappa
A man loses contact with reality
if he is not surrounded by his books.
-Francois Mitterand
A man loses contact with reality
if he is not surrounded by his books.
-Francois Mitterand
The good of a book
lies in its being read.
-Umberto Eco
Most of what makes a book 'good'
is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
-Alain de Botton
Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own -
but that we could never have described on our own.
-Alain de Botton
One kind of good book should leave you asking:
how did the author know that about me?
-Alain de Botton
The possession of a book
becomes a substitute for reading it.
-Anthony Burgess
Never read any book
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the case of good books,
the point is not to see how many of them
you can get through,
but how many can get through to you.
-Mortimer Adler
There are books which one should not attempt
before having passed the age of forty.
-Marguerite Yourcenar
A books should be luminous,
not voluminous.
-Christian Bovee
Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book
are the five or six words
for which really all the rest will be written.
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
Be careful of the books you read
as of the company you keep;
for your habits and character
will be as much influenced by the former
as by the latter.
-Paxton Hood
Some books are to be tasted,
others to be swallowed,
and some few to be chewed and digested.
-France Bacon
Don't read a book out of its right time for you.
-Doris Lessing
As far as possible
I only read what I am hungry for at that moment
when I have an appetite for it,
and then I do not read, I eat.
-Simone Weil
For some of us, good books and beautiful writing
are our ultimate solace,
even more comforting than exquisite food.
-Anne Lamott
Books are good enough in their own way,
but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
Master books but do not let them master you.
Read to live, not live to read.
-Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
-Lin Yutang
If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way:
write it.
-Ambrose Bierce
A book is a version of the world.
If you do not like it, ignore it;
or offer your own version in return.
-Salmon Rushdie
Why would you want to read others' books
when there is the book of yourself?
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
