Henry Miller Quotes

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

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

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life.

Books are for nothing but to inspire

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

Books open windows to the world and have the power to transform lives.

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

I always believe leaders are readers, so you've got to read 30 minutes a day of something that's going to inspire you.

Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?

Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work.

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.

What an astonishing thing a book is.

A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.

I spent my life in the library reading books.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

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

Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.

What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?