Bookish Quotes
Here is a list of all the Bookish Quotes that rotate at random on the site.
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
- Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Books are packaged dreams.
- Dean Koontz
Life is too short to read bad books.
- Anonymous
Books are engines of change,windows on the world, and (as a poet has said) “lighthouses erected in the sea of time.” They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
- Barbara W. Tuchman
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all
- Henry David Thoreau
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers,magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.
- Peter Golkin
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.... You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
- Angela Carter
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
- Ray Bradbury
My stories run up and bite me on the leg -- I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
- Ray Bradbury
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
- Kathleen Norris
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
- Helen Keller
Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.
- Oprah Winfrey
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
- Sarah Margaret Fuller
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
- Oscar Wilde
I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came, he opened to 'I hate to read new books,' and I hollered 'Comrade!' to whoever owned it before me.
- Helene Hanff
You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
- C.S. Lewis
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
- Peter De Vries
