A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend. – Author unknown
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. – James Bryce
Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. – Author unknown
A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. – William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. – G.K. Chesterton
A good book has no ending. – R.D. Cumming
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. – Anna Quindlen, "Enough Bookshelves," New York Times, 7 August 1991
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. – Charles W. Eliot
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go into the library and read a good book. – Groucho Marx
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things. – George Robert Gissing
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. – Chinese Proverb
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. – William Hazlitt
My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. – Thomas Helm
A dirty book is rarely dusty. – Author unknown
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate! – William James
A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. – Franz Kafka
The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. – Andrew Ross
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations — such is a pleasure beyond compare. – Kenko Yoshida
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. – Jessamyn West
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
