Book Quotes

I read an hour almost every night. It’s part of falling asleep.

Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.

A good book is an event in my life.

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.

Books are a habit-forming drug.

For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.

The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.

If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.