If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on... →
Laurence Housman
Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as... →
My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.
John Howe
I take refuge in my books.
Julia Ward Howe
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
William Dean Howells
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Elbert Hubbard
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Victor Hugo
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
Leigh Hunt
I feel I've got 10 books in me.
Robert Hunter