Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
Bernard Baruch

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
Thomas Huxley

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
Louis Aragon

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
Samuel Butler

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Samuel Butler

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.
Philip Pullman

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot

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

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

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
Walter Bagehot

To read too many books is harmful.
Mao Zedong

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.
Nicholas Sparks

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.
Nicholas Sparks

Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.
Nicholas Sparks

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

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
Louisa May Alcott

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

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