“Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.”
“With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.”
“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.”
“Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]”
“One half who graduate from college never read another book.”
“A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.”
“We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.”
“The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.”
“People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.”
“You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.”
“Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.”
“Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.”
“A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.”
“In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.”
“A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.”
“I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.”
“I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.”
“A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.”
“Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.”
“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
“What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.”
“Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.”
“I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.”
“A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.”
“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”
“Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?”
“Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”
“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.”
“Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.”
“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”