Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.

Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know read more

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.

This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he read more

This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading read more

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have read more

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Oh that my words were now written! on that they were printed in
a book!

Oh that my words were now written! on that they were printed in
a book!

A man of one book.
[Lat., Homo unius libri.]

A man of one book.
[Lat., Homo unius libri.]