Book Quotes: Literary Pearls of Wisdom

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

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"No two persons ever read the same book"

Edmund Wilson, Critic

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language"

John Donne, Poet

"Years teach us more than books"

Berthold Auerbach, Author

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them"

Mark Twain, Author

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

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"I sort of try to read the books when they come out impartially and not make up my mind, but the fact is when I was reading the sixth, 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince', there were bits in there where I was going, 'God, I would love to do that because it's so good'"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

"The true university of these days is a collection of books"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away"

Doug Coupland, Author

"The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes"

Agatha Christie, Writer

"Americans like fat books and thin women"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing"

Richard Wright, Novelist

"I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

"A book that is shut is but a block"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"And I don't like books which are full of name dropping"

Daphne du Maurier, Novelist

"I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers"

Lance Burton, Entertainer

"Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space"

John McGahern, Writer

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"The multitude of books is making us ignorant"

Voltaire, Writer

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

Mark Twain, Author

"Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles"

R. L. Stine, Writer

"No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings"

W. E. B. Du Bois, Writer

"A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again"

W. E. B. Du Bois, Writer

"The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume"

Paul Theroux, Novelist

"My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state"

Jim Garrison, Public Servant

"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn"

Joseph Addison, Writer

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