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"The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all."
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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."
"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please."
"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
"What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so."
"In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive."
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."
Explore more quotes by William Dean Howells
"In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere."
"There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things."
"You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up."
"A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it."
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