I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
Books Quotes
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude.
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.
Books, the children of the brain.
“We are too civil to books,” wrote Emerson. “For a few Golden sentences we read 400 to 500 pages.” Still he opened every new book with anticipation. He spent his life searching for sentences. Most, of course, came from within – the original thoughts of an original thinker. But he was always ready for any […]
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.
