My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.
Thomas More

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.
Bill Murray

I love books.
Reese Witherspoon

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Desiderius Erasmus

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
Madeleine L'Engle

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
E. M. Forster

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
E. M. Forster

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.
Desiderius Erasmus

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.
Al Capp

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
Camille Paglia

At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north; and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.
Ernest Thompson Seton

Read books. They are good for us.
Natalie Goldberg

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Horace

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
Evelyn Waugh

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
Ramakrishna

I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.
Tom Araya

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
James Russell Lowell

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
Billy Joel

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
William Hazlitt

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Thomas Fuller