Think not of the books you’ve bought as a “to be read” pile. Instead, think of your bookcase as a wine cellar. You collect books to be read at the right time, the right place, and the right mood.Luc van Donkersgoed
My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.Malcolm X
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.Haruki Murakami
Books are the closest thing you’ll ever come to finding cheat codes for real life. You can access the entire learnings of someone else's career in a few hours.Tobi Lütke
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.Jeanette Winterson
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.Maxim Gorky
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.Mark Twain
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.Sylvia Plath
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.Oprah Winfrey
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can spend Rs 5,000 for a meal at the Taj and thousands on all kinds of shopping, but we're always stingy about books. We always think of borrowing. Why? Writers can use some support. If you have space and money, you should buy your own books.Sudha Murty
As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.Julie Burchill
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.Benjamin Franklin
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.Pablo Neruda
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.Ernest Hemingway
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.Abraham Lincoln
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.Francis Bacon
Books are ships of thought, sailing the waves of time, carefully carrying their priceless cargo from generation to generation.Sarah Knowles Bolton
Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.Austin Kleon
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.Wisława Szymborska