Book Quotes and Sayings

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

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

People say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

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

The public library is the most dangerous place in the town.

The closest thing we will ever come to an orderly universe is a good library.

I just try my best to make the character the best I can and make it the most interesting and also entertaining and also true to the book that I can.

Choose your friends like your books, few but choice.

Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.

I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.

The only way to write a book is to sit in chair.

A book of quotations – can never be complete.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

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

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

When I write a book, I’m making it the best book I can.

You don’t write a book to show off.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Life transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.