I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Joseph Addison

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
Anatole France

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
Anatole France

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Anatole France

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.
Jim Harrison

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
Jim Harrison

Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.
Steve Wozniak

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.
Steve Wozniak

I often reread books I have written.
Taylor Caldwell

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Stanislaw Lec

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.
Bruce Springsteen

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.
Kinky Friedman

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Salman Rushdie

This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussion about the subject matter and I've had a good time talking about it. And in some of the cases, I'm not just signing books; I'm showing slides and talking about the work.
Leonard Nimoy

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

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
Raymond Chandler