Bookshelf Stash

Books don't need batteries. - Nadine Gordimer

No furniture so charming as books. - Sydney Smith

Books are uniquely portable magic. - Stephen King

Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker. - Ogden Nash

Books and chocolate make life bearable. - Unknown

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

Why don't you write books people can read? - Nora Joyce

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else. - Neil Gaiman

A room without books is like a body without a soul. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose. - Steven Wright

Books have led some to learning and others to madness. - Petrarch

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell. - American Proverb

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

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. - George R.R. Martin

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. - Winston Churchill

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes. - Samuel Butler

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. - B.F. Skinner

The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily. - Robin Sharma

Better one line that will survive the author than a hundred books outlived. - Unknown

You can lead a horse to water but I'd rather ride it to the liquor store. - Wayne Nowazek

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. - Oscar Wilde

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I might love my e-reader, but I'd never pass up the chance to browse real books. - Nichole Chase

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. - Ernest Hemingway

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

It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read. - Doris Lessing

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime. - Martin Luther

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing. - Milla Jovovich

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. - H L Mencken

Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read. - John Wooden

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it. - Evita Peron

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. - Sigmund Freud

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned now to cook. - Andy Rooney

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling. - Gail Carriger

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles W. Eliot

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. - William Cowper

More people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting. - Stephen Covey