Book Quotes About Reading & Ideas – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

William Faulkner

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

Jim Harrison

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

John Donne

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.

Anne McCaffrey

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Rene Descartes

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

Walter Jon Williams

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

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

Matthew Vaughn

I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Emily Dickinson

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

Lillian Hellman

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

Michael Ondaatje

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Henry Ward Beecher

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Camille Paglia

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

Georg Brandes

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.

Desiderius Erasmus

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Harry S. Truman

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

Jeanette Winterson

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

Lynda Barry

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

Charles Baudelaire

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

Charles Caleb Colton

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

Samuel Richardson

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

George Henry Lewes

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

Ernest Hemingway

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

Jackie Kennedy

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Henry Ward Beecher

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Thornton Wilder