Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

We live for books.

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.

Pouring out liquor is like burning books.

Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

A book is like a quarrel. One word leads to another, and may erupt in blood or print, irrevocably.

The book borrower… proves himself to be an in venerate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures… as by his failure to read these books.

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.

Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.

You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

There's so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.

There was this book that Judi Dench wrote that said there was a moment where, before an actor can be this or be that, the actor must simply be. I thought that to have absolute presence was to absorb everything that’s thrown at you.

She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.

“It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.”

“You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.”

“The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”

“I am a beau only in my books.”

"I've actually not read any books on time management."

"Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world."

"Is Islam such a weak religion that it cannot tolerate a book written against it? Not my Islam!"