If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Of course I loved books more than people.

John Steinbeck, A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia

My library is an archive of longings.

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

If a book about failures doesn’t sell, is it a success?

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

A good book is an event in my life.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ’em!

The world was hers for the reading.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.

I cannot live without books.

Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you’ll die of a misprint.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”

“I guess there are never enough books.”

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

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

If you have enough book space, I don’t want to talk to you.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

… a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.