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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.