Books
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho MarxNever read a book through merely because you have begun it.
John WitherspoonI've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Charles De SecondatLife-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Bell HooksThere is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Christopher MorleyLive always in the best company when you read.
Sydney SmithWoe be to him that reads but one book.
George HerbertI read part of it all the way through.
Samuel GoldwynWhen I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
W. Somerset MaughamDo give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
Lenore HersheyBe careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark TwainThank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.
Moses HadasI have read your book and much like it.
Moses HadasOh for a book and a shady nook...
John WilsonReading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert EinsteinPeople say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall SmithKnowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
William ShakespeareThere 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.
G. K. ChestertonReading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.
Ralph NovakIn the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
Upton SinclairA book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman RushdieReading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Harold BloomBe as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
Paxton HoodI declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen