Quick Quotes

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Jane Austen

books    classic    humor   

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Jane Austen

books    library    reading   

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Ernest Hemingway

books    friends   

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Madeleine L'Engle

books    children    adult   

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

C.S. Lewis

books    reading    tea   

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Jorge Luis Borgis

books    library   

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami

books    thought   

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

George R.R. Martin

reading    books    reading   

... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

George R.R. Martin

books    mind   

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

J.D. Salinger

books    reading   

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Mark Twain

books    friends