Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

Drink deeply from good books.

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

Books do furnish a room.

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

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

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

The proper study of mankind is books.

Getting books out into the world helps us all.

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

To start with, look at all the books.

By and large books are mankind's best invention.

Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

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

Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses, ships' forecastles, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far from a book.

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

You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

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

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.

Reading means borrowing.

books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.