Books Quotes

  • I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.
    ~ Steven Alexander Wright
  • Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
    ~ Henry David Thoreau
  • Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
    ~ Mary Jessamyn West
  • Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
    ~ Ezra Weston Loomis Pound
  • Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
    ~ Maya Angelou
  • If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.
    ~ Terry Pratchett
  • Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.
    ~ Stephen King
  • I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
    ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
    ~ Terry Pratchett
  • Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
    ~ G. K. Chesterton
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