7,712 Quotes About Books

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

I guess there are never enough books.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands... that can do your brain.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.