Quotes about books

A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.

Marianne Williamson

It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required – learn vitally anything – by the close study of books.

David McCullough

I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

Marcus Buckingham

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

Thomas Carlyle

Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine. Believe it only because you yourself know it to be true.

Buddha

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

Oscar Wilde

All I really want to do is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.

Jean-Paul Sartre

No one ever writes a book in which he is the bad guy.

Andy Rooney

Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read,’ and my answer is, poetry and novels – including short stories under the head of novels.

Theodore Roosevelt