I don’t want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.
Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.
This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn’t take on any other terms.
I’m of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book.
Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.
It’s easier to write about those you hate – just as it’s easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.
His books are exciting and powerful and – if I may filch the word from the booksy ones – pulsing.
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead.
When the book comes out it may hurt you – but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.
I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.
Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook? Against what? There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.
He said that whether a man’s life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.
Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.
Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.
We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
My chest of books divide amongst my friends –.
Life is too short to read a bad book.
I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom.