Quotes about Books and Reading

“Read in order to live.”

“I cannot live without books.”

“Books succeed, and lives fail.”

“Read much, but not many books.”

“A book is the only immortality.”

“Read good, big important things.”

“Never judge a book by its movie.”

“Beware of the person of one book.”

“This book fills a much-needed gap.”

“To read too many books is harmful.”

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

“Books and marriage go ill together.”

“The age of the book is almost gone.”

“A book that is shut is but a block.”

“The book you don't read won't help.”

“A library is thought in cold storage.”

“No furniture is so charming as books.”

“A book worth reading is worth buying.”

“All books are either dreams or swords.”

“I read part of it all the way through.”

“I have read your book and much like it.”

“A multitude of books distracts the mind.”

“Choose an author as you choose a friend.”

“What is reading, but silent conversation.”

“Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.”

“There is no robber worse than a bad book.”

“Books are not men and yet they stay alive.”

“Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.”

“I am a part of everything that I have read.”

“Never read any book that is not a year old.”