Harry Golden Quotes

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

I'm confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so.

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.

I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

I suppose books are my real passion in life.

Reading has always been the great love of my life.

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Everything in strategy is very simple, but that does not mean everything is very easy.

It is my belief that books are living things.

Simple things are always the most difficult.

But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far and superior to that of muscle and sinew. Let me tell you, if you don't know it from your own experience, that reading a good book, losing yourself in the interest of words and thoughts, is for some people (me, for instance) an incredible intensity of happiness.

I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK!

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

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