What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books
A S ByattWe go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.
Robert KiyosakiThe impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.
Richard WrightThe reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Rene DescartesI suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.
E M ForsterIf my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come
Raymond ChandlerIf some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.
Herman MelvilleThe biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Jackie CollinsAs life goes on, don't you find that all you need is about two real friends, a regular supply of books, and a Peke?
P G WodehouseMy books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is yours stands up against you and says, 'You are a thief.'
MartialIt wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
William FaulknerI have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
Wendell FordWe really have no definition of mother in our lawbooks.
Marianne O BattaniObviously there will be a sense of achievement... I suppose there will be some benefits to not writing Harry Potter books any more. So it is about fifty-fifty really
J K RowlingNext in importance to books are their titles.
Frank CraneMy only books
Were woman's looks,
And folly's all they've taught me.
Thomas MooreNo matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men
John Alfred LangfordBe careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint
Mark TwainUnlearned men of books assume the care,
As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair
Edward YoungIt is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections
David HumeI can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.
Jim BishopThe great objection to new books is that they prevent our reading old ones
Joseph JoubertThere were two things Janey Little loved best in the world: music and books, and not necessarily in that order.
Charles De LintIt is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them.
Frederick Locker-LampsonIf a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace ThackerayIf you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.
Lily TomlinBooks, the children of the brain.
Jonathan SwiftBooks, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
J P GettyBorrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
Peter F DruckerThere is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight.
Ezra PoundIf the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading, I would spurn them all
Francois De Salignac FenelonI've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
Pamela StephensonBecause they commonly make use of treasure found in books, as of other treasure belonging to the dead and hidden underground; for they dispose of both with great secrecy, defacing the shape and image of the one as much as of the other.
William DavenantBooks of quotations are an elemental model of how culture is perpetuated, the wisdom of the trite passed on to posterity, to be added to, edited, and modified by subsequent generations.
Robert AndrewsBookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section.
Barbara Taylor BradfordWho knows for what we live, struggle and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Alan PatonBooks are a languid pleasure
MontaigneIf sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
Bette MidlerBooks, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
Helen RowlandA morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt WhitmanWell, now that he's finished one building, he'll Le Corbusier go write four books about it.
Frank Lloyd WrightBooks should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
John DenhamYouth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
Lionel TrillingBooks that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Samuel JohnsonThere's a million of those self-help books to tell you to just see it and believe it and it's going to happen. That's a great policy
James BlakeWisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
HoraceA bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance, but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
John GalbraithSome books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W H AudenMy father said, 'There are times to sit, or stand and be counted,'
When good people die, just laws are forsaken, banned books smolder,
There comes a time when our steed must be armored and mounted;
The balance of good and evil rests on our collective shoulders.
Jason MercheyAssociate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people.
Thomas Davidson
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