Quotes About Books

Self help books are pointless. Here's something for you... Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and self help books are from Uranus.

There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.

Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

What holy cities are to nomadic tribes — a symbol of race and a bond of union — great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind.

Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

The things that are really important to me are my man, my animals and my books. I don't need anything else.

Burning books is not as grave as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!

A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments!

What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?

As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.

A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.

The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.

I got every Dan Shaughnessy book known to man.

My freind is the man who gives me a book I aint read."Abraham Linclion

Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.

She never said, "No, don't buy that trash," or "Pick a real book." She knew they were all real books. This is how great a librarian she was. And how great a mom.

Moms come up to me at book signings.

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.