T. S. Eliot Quotes

There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books do furnish a room.

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

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

The proper study of mankind is books.

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

A house without books is like a room without windows.

I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.

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

I have a huge passion for literature.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

Every single book is a challenge.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.