The covers of this book are too far apart.
—Ambrose Bierce
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
—André Maurois
You can cover a great deal of country in books.
—Andrew Lang
There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.
—Anna Quindlen
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
—Arnold Lobel
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
—Austin Phelps
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
—Bell Hooks
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
—Charles Caleb Colton
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
—Charles De Secondat
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
—Charles W. Eliot
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
—Christopher Morley
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
—Cicero
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
—Dame Rose Macaulay
Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.
—Dave Kellett
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
—Dorothy L. Sayers