If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.
Books Quotes
A dose of poison can do its work only once, but a bad book can go on poisoning people’s minds for any length of time.
No book is so bad but some good might be got out of it.
There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child.
People buy books to own knowledge and have others see them as people of knowledge.
There’s nothing to match curling up with a good book when there’s a repair job to be done around the house.
As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list’ning to himself appears.
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.
