A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

-- that books were mirrors, reflective in sometimes unpredictable ways.

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

Books are mirrors you only see in them what you already have inside you

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts

I enjoy books. No room is fit for occupation without a lining of books.

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

I don't understand your book. Isn't every book a book of words?