“Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.”
“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
“Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!”
“Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.”
“Live always in the best company when you read.”
“A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.”
“Next, in importance to books are their titles.”
“The newest books are those that never grow old.”
“A good title is the title of a successful book.”
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.”
“Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.”
“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
“Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.”
“Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.”
“Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.”
“I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.”
“Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.”
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
“Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.”
“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”
“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”
“A book might be written on the injustice of the just.”
“Books had instant replay long before televised sports.”
“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”
“Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.”
“I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.”
“The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.”
“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
“The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.”
“One man is as good as another until he has written a book.”