Top 100 Best Books Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Best Books

#1. It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books.

#2. Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say that I had a few extraordinary English teachers in high school whom I still credit for their guidance.

Julia Glass

#3. No shame in having a ghostwriter," Storm said. "Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose identity the public will never know.

Richard Castle

#4. The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

William Ellery Channing

#5. Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

Lord Chesterfield

#6. Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

John Erskine

#7. Associate with noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone.
Rely upon your own energies, and so not wait for, or depend on other people.

Thomas Davidson

#8. The best books are the ones that ask the most questions.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#9. Don Vicente, a monk of the Convent of Pobla in Aragon, murdered several collectors in order to get their best books;

Harold Rabinowitz

#10. I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art and William Zinsser's On Writing Well. I read a lot of classics;

Donald Miller

#11. Come, my best friends, my best books, and lead me on.

Abraham Cowley

#12. The best books act like a powerful drug--they take you out of your own head into experiences, emotions and settings a million miles away.

Anonymous-9

#13. The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#14. The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.

Fran Tarkenton

#15. The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.

Robert Morgan

#16. I've always loved literature, and the best books I read were always trilogies.

Dawn Angelique

#17. One of the best books I've read was George S. Clason's The Richest Man in Babylon, which offers financial advice in a collection of parables.

Sophia Amoruso

#18. A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books - the best books - give us: a lifeline, a reason to believe, a way to breathe more freely.

Blake Morrison

#19. It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

Rudyard Kipling

#21. The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.

Julian Barnes

#22. I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined with all the best books, somewhere to live when the rest of the world blew up.

Bruce Chatwin

#23. The best books are the ones with the coolest covers

Matthew Skinner

#24. Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

Saul Bellow

#25. My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.

Edward Abbey

#26. I'm surviving and developing as a writer. I don't know what brings you to mass attention in terms of sales. But I've gotten more and more comfortable with it. Of course if that changes, I'll be comfortable with that. All I can do is write the best books I can.

Daniel Woodrell

#27. Sometimes the best books are hidden gems that you didn't even know were out there!

Carmela Dutra

#28. The best books come from someplace deep inside ... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

Judy Blume

#29. Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.

Aldous Huxley

#30. The popular culture gives us books that offer entertainment but no ideas. High culture gives us books that offer ideas but no entertainment. The best books manage to do both.

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#31. Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us.

Michael Morpurgo

#32. Originals by Adam Grant is one of the best books I've read on how to be more creative at work and how to think outside the box, sell your ideas, and make a difference. 10.YOUR CREATIVE LIFE. The War of Art by Steven

Vishen Lakhiani

#33. It's not so much that nothing means
anything but more that it keeps meaning
nothing.
there's no release, just gurus and self-
appointed gods and hucksters.
the more people say, the less there is to say.
even the best books are dry sawdust.

Charles Bukowski

#34. It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

William Ellery Channing

#35. Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Desiderius Erasmus

#36. The best books - like the best music or television or movies or comics or video games - can challenge us and force us to think or perceive aspects of life that we may prefer to avoid. In a sense, they threaten us.

Geoffrey Reiter

#37. Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

Robertson Davies

#38. The only problem is that it's difficult to imagine something entirely new. We use the words and definitions of the past to shape our ideas. Something that is genuinely the next evolutionary step is unlikely to resemble anything we can imagine. Even the best books on the subject are limited." She'd

Genevieve Cogman

#39. I believe there is a hero in each of us. The best books are the ones that remind us of who we already are and empower us to embrace our own story.

Marilynn Halas

#40. Seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.

Doctrine And Covenants 88 118

#41. In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.

Viggo Mortensen

#42. The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.

Orison Swett Marden

#43. What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.

Rikki Ducornet

#44. Material Witness - book 1 (**Named one of Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2012) Nothing But Trouble (Contemporary Western Romance)

Lisa Mondello

#45. The best books arise from some ultimate question in the author.

Isobelle Carmody

#46. Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

Albert Einstein

#47. THREE DAYS TO DEAD is one of the best books I've read. Ever. Evy Stone is a heroine's heroine, and I rooted for her from the moment I met her. Kelly Meding has written a phenomenal story, one that's fast-paced, gritty, and utterly addictive. Brava! More! More! More!

Jackie Morse Kessler

#48. Sometimes the best books are the ones no-one has heard of and you have to dig deep to find.

Crystal Spears

#49. Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth ...

Reginald Horace Blyth

#50. Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Henry David Thoreau

#51. I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca. Simply put, the best books have both, and the best writers disparage neither.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

#52. Read the best books first, otherwise you'll find you do not have time.
- Henry David Thoreau

Leo Tolstoy

#53. The best books ... are those that tell you what you know already.

George Orwell

#54. An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.

John Ruskin

#55. I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

Oscar Wilde

#56. Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message.

John Grisham

#57. The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

Judy Blume

#58. I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.

Max Beerbohm

#59. I vow I shall give all my very best books to the underprivileged, once I have read them

Barbara Kingsolver

#60. The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell.

Henry David Thoreau

#61. No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.

Bella James

#62. I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them.

Gene Wolfe

#63. Book collecting! First editions and best editions; old books and new books - the ones you like and want to have around you. Thousands of 'em. I've had more honest satisfaction and happiness collecting books than anything else I've ever done in life.

Peter Ruber

#64. Living your life is a long and doggy business ... And stories and books help. Some help you with the living itself. Some help you just take a break. The best do both at the same time.

Anne Fine

#65. There I was, clinging to the scraps of happiness that I could finally feel again: coffee and books and an afternoon with my best friend. What right did I have, when he was gone?

Emery Lord

#66. Let a book be your best defense to bordem

Carmela Dutra

#67. The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.

Criss Jami

#68. If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don't have to say anything. Be friendly and then go do
your best. That will make you special, too!

Jeff Hutchins

#69. To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.

Pearl S. Buck

#70. Perhaps that is the best way to say it: printed books are magical, and real bookshops keep that magic alive.

Jen Campbell

#71. The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.

Jamie L. Harding

#72. Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.

Pierre Choderlos De Laclos

#73. Books that had already been read were the best.

Katarina Bivald

#74. The White Queen in many ways it is representative of the sort of drama that I'm talking about. The books by Philippa Gregory were best sellers and they specifically told the story of history from the point of view of women.

Colin Callender

#75. When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.

Guillaume Musso

#76. So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries.

Bernard Cornwell

#77. The art of injudicious reading, the art of miscellaneous reading which every normal man ought to cultivate, is a very fine and satisfactory art; for the best guide to books is a book itself. It clasps hands with a thousand other books.

Maurice Francis Egan

#78. Every happy moments looks perfect till it gets messy

Sheeja Jose

#79. Conflict resolution,' said Nightingale. 'Is this what they teach at Hendon these days?'
'Yes, sir,' I said. 'But don't worry, they also teach us how to beat people with phone books and the ten best ways to plant evidence.

Ben Aaronovitch

#80. the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.

Aubrey F.G. Bell

#81. The homes I like the best are totally occupied, busy, and useful, whether it's a tiny little house or a great big one. Rarely do you find a great big house that's used in a good way. So I prefer smaller spaces that are full of books, full of things that people are doing.

Martha Stewart

#82. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.

Anthony Browne

#83. Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

#84. I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.

Fanny Howe

#85. In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody's best friend.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#86. Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!
(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)

Russell T. Davies

#87. There was a universe inside every human being every bit as big as the universe outside them. Books were the best way Nina knew - apart from, sometimes, music - to breach the barrier, to connect the internal universe with the external, the words acting merely as a conduit between the two worlds.

Jenny Colgan

#88. Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.

Louis L'Amour

#89. One of the best book marketing tips I can give you is simply building relationships - well that and publishing more books.

Heather Hart

#90. Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

Cesar Chavez

#91. I enjoy reading and I'm a huge kindle fan, the device you can read eBooks with. One of the best inventions of all times. I just recently purchased a Dostojewski collection, for just $1. At that rate I will probably own 3 million books soon.

Robert Pattinson

#92. I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention ...

John Muir

#93. This is the best time to be an author.

Geraldine Solon

#94. He had been inspired to start a career in the porn industry after reading the incredible tale of a Japanese man who avenged the death of his sister by going down on her best friend for seven days and seven nights.

Mark Jackman