All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
Books Quotes
Samuel Johnson is on this page more than once for good reason. In The Rambler (1750) he wrote that no place gives a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Boswell (1791) has him saying that a man ought to read just as inclination leads him, because what he reads as a task will do him little good. Alberto Manguel, Emerson and Northrop Frye are among the most-quoted writers here, which is what you would expect from people who spent their working lives reading.
Two entries are flagged as misattributed. The quip about a manuscript that is both good and original, with the good parts not original and the original parts not good, is credited to Johnson. “Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!” is credited to General Patton.
The best books are those, which those who read them believe they themselves could have written.
Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
This book is begun by God's gift and His grace, but it is not yet performed, as to my sight.
Studying neurobiology to understand humans is like studying ink to understand literature.
I will do all your reading, and I will tell you what to think about it.
Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!
I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.
We in chronic need of a second look of the law books, And the whole race dichotomy