| Author |
Quotes |
| Dylan Thomas | My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. |
| Elizabeth Hardwick | The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. |
| Ezra Pound | Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. |
| Francis Bacon | But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. |
| Francis Bacon | Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. |
| Francis Bacon | Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. |
| Francis Bacon | Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested. |
| Frank Dane | The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. |
| G C Lichtenberg | A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out. |
| Giorgos Seferis | Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. |
| Groucho Marx | Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. |
| Harper Lee | Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. |
| Harriet Martineau | Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. |
| Herbert Samuel | A library is thought in cold storage. |
| Holbrook Jackson | The newest books are those that never grow old. |
| Isaac Asimov | I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. |
| J W Eagan | Never judge a book by its movie. |
| Jessamyn West | Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. |
| John Dawkins | I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet. |
| John Harington | Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. |
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