Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.
Gustav Klimt

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray Bradbury

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
Isaac Asimov

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Samuel Johnson

I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.
Neale Donald Walsch

The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.
Neale Donald Walsch

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Samuel Johnson

There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened.
Julius Erving

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
Thomas B. Macaulay

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
Dick Gregory

I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.
Jerry Garcia

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.
Ezra Pound

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Ray Bradbury

We cannot learn men from books.
Benjamin Disraeli

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
Benjamin Disraeli

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Benjamin Disraeli

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Harper Lee

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.
R. A. Salvatore

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