Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

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

Books are alive, you see. They’re not dead, they’re alive.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

I went to an extreme for literary purposes because I felt all the self-help books out there were so gooey and Pollyanna-ish and nauseating. It was making me angry.

I’m screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I’m funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that’s appreciated by young people.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

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

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

I read all the time, and I’m often struck by something I’m reading.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

I don’t read books much.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.

I’m not a nerd, don’t plan to be a nerd and read books – which I can’t do at all.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

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

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

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.

What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.

I read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

‚Lives‘ is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material – and after that, you’re not sure what you can do.

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

I would never want a book’s autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.