Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Good books like good friends are few and chosen the more select the more enjoyable.

My Alma mater was books a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading just satisfying my curiosity.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Mr. Arthur Ashe he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.

Books are good enough in their own way but they are a poor substitute for life.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

And this our life exempt from public haunt finds tongues in trees books in the running brooks sermons in stones and good in everything.

Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books but no one can get anything out of life without God.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

I don't mind saying you know that I don't take a salary from the church and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

Reading about nature is fine but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully he can learn more than what is in books for they speak with the voice of God.

The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination I wonder whether we'll rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually.

I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.

What's interesting about books that take place in the future even twenty years in the future is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future just like there is now.

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be.