You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
Ninety percent of the children’s books patronize the child and say there’s a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don’t do that. I treat the child as an equal.
Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.
The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey!
This book is to be read in bed.
Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Don’t join the book burners!
I am glad there are things in the Bible I do not understand. If I could take that book up and read it as I would any other book, I might think I could write a book like that.
If God did not want us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.
There’s no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
Ah, but you see, I didn’t want to be fair.
One’s favorite book is as elusive as one’s favorite pudding.
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
But this time I’m not to blame; I want you to believe that. I simply slipped into those violets. No, I want to be really truthful. I am a little to blame. The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground all blue, and for a moment he looked like some one in a book.
Pick up any history book, and I suggest you begin with studying the 20th century, and you will find that a large part of the history of our species has all the characteristics we would normally associate with a nightmare or an insane hallucination.
How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!