395 Quotes About Book-lovers

The internet is killing the art of writing. The big "publish" button begs you to publish even before you go back and make one single edit, and as if this was not enough, you have instant readers who praise your writing skills!-

Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true

One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants

If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing

I loved women the way I loved books. Ravenously, as fast and as many as I could lay my hands on. Reading indiscriminately in every genre and savoring my favorites again. Slowly.

Sadly for the books these days there are more writers than readers

A read book now becomes very happy because the ideas in it are now beginning to transfer to many living organisms, and even if the book is physically on the shelf, it begins to circulate spiritually all over the world!

A book can allow a reader to do nothing or to do everything.

He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule to never touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. "That's the only kind of book I can trust," he said."It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading a book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short.