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

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.

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.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

It’s very difficult to read a book on your computer.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

‚Classic.‘ A book which people praise and don’t read.

I had not expected ‚A Brief History of Time‘ to be a best seller.

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

I’m always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn’t stop.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

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

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

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

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera – or an NHL game.

I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

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.

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

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.

We’re always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don’t understand the conclusions. After we’ve checked them enough, we’re okay.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

I’ve only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They’re all I need, and the rest I can do without.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

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

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

I like writing. I get cranky when I can’t. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

The book you don’t read won’t help.

I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

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 cannot live without books.

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

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don’t know what you’re doing.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

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.

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

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.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

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

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.