Nicholson Baker Quotes

I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?

We need to read good books, and for that to happen, we need to share good books.

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one finds new beauties at every interview, and would stay long in the presence of those choice companions. As with friends, he may dispense with a wide acquaintance. Few and choice. The richest minds need not large libraries.

Books are the curse of the human race.

By and large books are mankind's best invention.

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole other world in books.

The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.

He would talk to them of stories and books, and explain to them how stories wanted to be told and books wanted to be read, and how everything that they ever needed to know about life and the land of which he wrote, or about any land or realm that they could imagine, was contained in books. And some of the children understood, and some did not.

Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out Among the giant fossils of my past, Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, pulling through the gap, In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, The first book first. And how I felt it beat Under my pillow, in the morning’s dark, An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!

A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come when he may, with eager hand and seeing eye. Then occurs one of the great examples of union, that of a man with a book, pleasurable, sometimes fruitful, potentially world-changing, simple; and in a library...witho ut cost to the reader.

That's what this country needs -- more books!

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

We still have books because they are so brilliantly suited to the way human beings absorb information and at their best, they are among the most beautiful things we have.

Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thoughts in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered world has less hope for repair if reading becomes an ever smaller part of it.

Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed.

Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.