“The summer movies are coming out. My advice: just stay home and burn a good book.”

“The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet

“My my, hey hey
Rock and roll is here to stay.
It's better to burn out
Than to fade away.
My my, hey hey.”

Neil Young (1945) Canadian singer-songwriter

“A woman who taught at Berkeley dropped in on me once and saw a book burning in the fireplace. She pointed at it in terror, and I explained that it was a crummy ghostwritten life of a movie star and that it was an act of sanitation to burn it rather than sending it out into the world which was already clogged with too many copies of it. But she said, "You shouldn’t burn books" and began to cry.”

Pauline Kael (1919–2001) American film critic

“Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest;
Home-keeping hearts are happiest.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

“Take my advice. Stay away from all broken people.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

“I'm of the glamorous ladies
At whose beckoning history shook.
But you are a man, and see only my pan,
So I stay at home with a book.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

“Val: Why do you go out there?
Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice.
Val: What advice do they give?
Sandra: Just one word- live!”

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright

“Pouring out liquor is like burning books.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer