books

"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."

"If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?"

"He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say."

"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."

"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."

"Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read."

"Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not."

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

"A precious, mouldering pleasure ’t is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think."

"What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for."

"Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly"

"Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators."

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."

"Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)"

"The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us."

"When I touched her body,I believed she was God.In the curves of her formI found the birth of Man,the creation of the world,and the origin of all life."

"The function of a book is to provide a reading experience."

"Who made you Queen of Literacy? Go sit in your car!"

"Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint."