Book lovers never go to bed alone.
It circulated for five years, through the halls of fifteen publishers, and finally ended up with Vanguard Press, which as you can see is rather deep into the alphabet.
The first book of the nation is the dictionary of its language.
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
I read part of it all the way through.
A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
A good book has no ending.
Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book!
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!
I hate books; they teach us only to talk about what we do not know.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.
Books think for me.
Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true.
Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.
One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
