Quotes About Books

I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.

Scholars have an inordinate respect for long books, and have a terrible rancune against those that attempt to cheat on them. They cannot bear to imagine that short-cuts are possible, that specialism is not an inevitability, that learning need not be stoically endured. They cannot bear writers allegro, and when they read such texts—and even pretend to revere them—the result is (this is not a description without generosity) 'unappetizing'.

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To live with lucidity a simple, quiet, discreet life among intelligent books, loving a few beings.

Contemporary literature, in each and every epoch, is the worst enemy of culture. A reader's limited time is wasted in reading a thousand books that blunt his critical sense and damage his literary sensibility. (I, 258)

Appartengono alla letteratura tutti i libri che si possono leggere due volte.

The things you know best are: first, those you know intuitively; second, those you've learned from experience; third, those you've learned not from but through books and the ideas they've inspired in you; and finally, those you've learned in books and from your teachers.

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

At this time I studied books like: R. C. Effinger ABC of Investing Dice & Eiteman The Stock Market B. E. Schultz The Securities Market: And How It Works Leo Barnes Your Investments H. M. Gartley Profit In The Stock Market Curtis Dahl Consistent Profits In The Stock Market E. J. Mann You Can Make Money In The Stock Market

Our ranks and estates are so irritated these days that they take personally whatever appears in printed books: such, evidently, is the mood in the air. It is enough simply to say that there is a stupid man in a certain town, and it already becomes personal; suddenly a gentleman of respectable appearance pops up and shouts: "But I, too, am a man, which means that I, too, am stupid"—in short, he instantly grasps the situation.

Not all books of same size, weight, length, thickness have same number of pages.

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void. - You've Got Mail

She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration.

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life. — Cited in ALA Bulletin, Oct. 1954, p.475

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.

At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

Vista dall'esterno, la mia esistenza era scheletrica; vista dall'interno ispirava quello che ispirano gli appartamenti il cui unico mobilio è una biblioteca sontuosamente stracolma di libri: l'ammirazione gelosa per chi non si sovraccarica del superfluo e trabocca del necessario

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.

Kitap okumakla, manav?n beni aldatmas?na engel olam?yorum bir türlü. Manava inanmad???m halde beni aldat?yor namussuz.