20 More Quotes about Books, Reading and Writing

Back in July I devoted a post to 26 quotes about books, reading and writing. Here are 20 more:

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. – Stephen Fry

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. – Francis Bacon

The covers of this book are too far apart. – Ambrose Bierce

Think before you speak. Read before you think. – Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. – Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. – Bertrand Russell

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book – I’ll waste no time reading it. – Moses Hadas

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. – Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. – Groucho Marx

Books are the mirrors of the soul. – Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

I cannot live without books. – Thomas Jefferson

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at people. – Charles Bukowski

Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book. – Kin Hubbard

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. – Marcus Tulles Cicero

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. – Arthur James Balfour

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. – Harry S Truman

I’ve often thought of writing my autobiography and selling it as a cure for insomnia. – Melanie White

A person who reads 50 Shades of Grey has no advantage over one who can’t read. – Guy Portman

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