477 Quotes About Books-and-reading

Tis easy to write epigrams nicely but to write a book is hard

Inquiry not only begins with wonder, but usually ends with it also.

Mike Royko, of course a famous local journalist, in one of his books about Mayor Daley claimed that not only did the mayor not want the expressway going through Bridgeport, but he also wanted to keep a specific divider between the whites and the blacks. Of course the Daley administration at the time denied that and said they wanted to get rid of an inelegant turn in the expressway.

The Singapore books are good enough, so that when you've been in them a while, you can learn this.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

My first day here, just like my first day at Alabama, I went and got the record books and looked it all up. It was like, 'OK, how hard is it going to be for me to get this thing?' I started setting goals to get them fast.

We were halfway through the book when we read something that James Holloway, director of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, had written, bemoaning the lack of contemporary faces in the gallery. With work already completed, we presented it to him and he was keen to go ahead with an exhibition.

Hopefully, young people will read more books, and it will cause them to think a little longer, than just react to pretty pictures.

It should not be in the book for titillating purposes or settling scores. It should be in the book because of its significance to our recent history.