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I cannot live without books.

» Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) British philosopher

All literature is gossip.

» Thomas Paine (1737-1809) English intellectual

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

» Umberto Eco (1932-?) Italian novelist, semiotician, essayist, philosopher and critic

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

» Umberto Eco (1932-?) Italian novelist, semiotician, essayist, philosopher and critic

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

» Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) Dutch painter

Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that

» Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) Dutch painter

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

» Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) British novelist and essayist ['To the lighthouse', 'Mrs Dalloway', 'Orlando']

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

» Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) British novelist and essayist ['To the lighthouse', 'Mrs Dalloway', 'Orlando']

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

» W. C. Fields (1880-1946) American comedian and actor

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

» W. C. Fields (1880-1946) American comedian and actor

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

» W. H. Auden (1907-1973) English-born poet and man of letters

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

» W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) British novelist and playwright

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

» Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) British philosopher

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

» Truman Capote (1924-1984) American author

A library implies an act of faith.

» Umberto Eco (1932-?) Italian novelist, semiotician, essayist, philosopher and critic

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

» Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) Dutch painter

If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the Writerto observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the

» W. C. Fields (1880-1946) American comedian and actor

The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

» W. H. Auden (1907-1973) English-born poet and man of letters

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