Top 100 Books Are Quotes
#1. The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.
Mark Van Doren
#2. I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
A.S. Byatt
#3. Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst ... They are for nothing but to inspire.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.
Blake Mycoskie
#5. Self help books are pointless. Here's something for you ... Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and self help books are from Uranus.
Craig Ferguson
#6. Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#7. Great books are weighted and measured by their style and matter, and not the trimmings and shadings of their grammar.
Mark Twain
#8. The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#9. My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.
Beverly Cleary
#10. I do a lot of research and yes, do know quite a few police officers, friends of mine and my husbands. However, most of my books are researched based on Canadian laws or the laws of each country (ie: Mexico and USA) and I do my best to make them accurate.
Franny Armstrong
#11. We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.
Benjamin Disraeli
#12. Books are sharks ... because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.
Douglas Adams
#13. History books are a record of events which bring us to the world in which we live today.
Ian Davies
#14. Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory ... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#15. children will be able to tell than the story we have told? Surely that is the greatest contribution of science to civilization: to ensure that the greatest books are not those of the past, but of the future.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#17. Books are like candy some can be sweet some can be sour, but no you cannot eat them
Morgan
#18. Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.
Ken Baumann
#19. Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody ever goes to school, though all the kids know their English history, Greek myths, and classic tales of derring-do.
Michael Dirda
#20. I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of creating a plot, developing relatable characters and keeping your audience invested in your story. My books are basically structured like three-act plays.
Suzanne Collins
#21. Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.
Douglas Adams
#23. Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.
Beverly Lewis
#24. A blessing on the printer's art!
Books are the mentors of the heart.
Sarah Josepha Hale
#25. My recipes aren't geared towards women; my books are marketed towards women because women are the biggest market for weight loss, weight management and weight maintenance and for cooking.
Bethenny Frankel
#27. Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.
Marilyn Manson
#28. My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark Twain
#29. Books are the salt of life; without them, there is no flavor.
Cheryl Koevoet
#30. You need help, and that's what books are for.
Kami Garcia
#31. With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
Charles Caleb Colton
#32. Books understand me, but humans don't understand me. They are bad friends books are forever as well as computer's and Tv and everything else which doesn't have soul. Although that dogs and cats and many other animals are quite interesting friends.
Deyth Banger
#33. I don't write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they're not really; I don't go there.
Melissa De La Cruz
#34. Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.
Leslie Fiedler
#35. Is anything illegal here?' Addison asked.
'Library late fines are stiff. Ten lashes a day, and that's just for paperbacks.
'There's a library?'
'Two. Though one won't lend because all the books are bound in human skin and quite valuable.
Ransom Riggs
#36. The books are your teacher, after and before school.
Deyth Banger
#37. Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
Karl Lagerfeld
#40. Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
Carl Sagan
#41. Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I have changed minds on this, as I set out to do.
Anthony Browne
#42. Time is a river ... and books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in its sands. Only a few, a very few, endure the testings of time and live to bless the ages following.
Dan Brown
#43. 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
#44. Dare to imagine. Dare to be.
Books are the seeds. Dreams are the soil.
The fruit of the harvest, a world reborn.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#45. sometimes stories and books are all that we need to take us away
Susan Ornbratt
#46. The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.
Jonathan Coe
#48. Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.
Jeremy Collier
#49. I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.
James McBride
#50. The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.
Edwin Booth
#52. Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thought in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered world has less hope for repair if reading becomes an ever smaller part of it.
Frank Bruni
#53. Lila:Humprey,Im feeling so cross right now!
Hump:why?
Lila:cauze I was disappointed with the movie,the book is much better,now they destroyed my expectation to the book
Hump:A good advice,some books are meant to be watch,some are not He smiled
Lia Veron
#54. It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.
Marjane Satrapi
#55. My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
David James Duncan
#56. Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them. It is within that we should write, think, and speak, not merely on paper.
Louis Claude De Saint-Martin
#57. Johnston's books are beautifully written and among the funniest I have ever read.
Annie Dillard
#59. The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler
#60. Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#61. My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
Karin Slaughter
#63. Just as some books are so beautiful and intriguing that you never want to put them down, forever eager of what lies beyond the scope of a single page, so you never cease to intrigue me, leaving me in constant yearning of all that resides within you.
Katie Douglas
#64. I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.
L. Ron Hubbard
#65. Books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.
Gertrude Atherton
#67. Because all books are forbidden when a country turns to terror. The scaffolds on the corners, the list of things you may not read. These things always go together.
Philippa Gregory
#69. Books are the liberated spirits of men.
Mark Twain
#70. Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar ... What I feel most moved to write, that is banned - it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches.
Herman Melville
#71. Books are no substitute for experience working with people, so now that you've read this book on leadership, go out and interact with people before you read any more.
Gerald M. Weinberg
#72. It has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room
Patrick O'Brian
#74. She quotes Robert Louis Stevenson about how young writers must read like predators. And she says that all of us, not just writers, must read like predators. For books are food, she said, for every single one of us.
Pete Hamill
#76. I want to act recklessly and have "that kiss" - the one that books are written about, love is found in, and virtue is lost with. "Decide, sweetheart," he commands. "A man only has so much restraint.
K. Bromberg
#77. Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.
Michel De Montaigne
#78. Besides....... who wants a boy? The only boys in our books are the little baby ones the man hero puts inside the heroine.
Alexa Riley
#79. All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times
Rosemary Wells
#81. Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.
Ray Bradbury
#82. A lot of the time writers are just sponges ... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words.
Marcus Mumford
#83. Books are the greatest treasure of wisdom and knowledge for mankind.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#85. Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
John Green
#86. As writers like to remark, books are never finished, they are merely abandoned. This acceptance of necessary expediency leads to the increasing doubt and anxiety characteristic of the last hours before the first significant encounter with reality: the separation event.
Venkatesh G. Rao
#87. The Hunger Games. Kill or die, a difficult choice. This type books are the best
Suzanne Collins
#88. Books are precious things and cannot be selected like tinned peas in Tesco.
Colin Bateman
#89. Man's books are but a climbing stair, Lain step by step, like stairs of stone; The stairway here, the temple there Man's lampad honor, and his trust, The God who called him from the dust.
Joaquin Miller
#90. Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.
Louis L'Amour
#91. Books are full of words and they are the most influential tools in the world. These seemingly innocent things strung together by letters have the power to ignite ideas, to spark a dying motivation, to fuel a passion.
Sarah Noffke
#92. It was rightly said of Sade that his is the work of a moralist. Erotic books are almost all alike in this respect: either they are working toward the elaboration of a revolutionary morality, or they echo the morality of their age, against which they are protesting.
Andre Pieyre De Mandiargues
#93. Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.
Sue Grafton
#94. Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.
Alan Bennett
#95. Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.
Alain De Botton
#96. Jamie Oliver's books are the best. I love Jamie. Bless him!
Twiggy
#97. Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity.
Donald J. Bingle
#98. Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.
Robert B. Parker
#99. My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.
Tryon Edwards
#100. Some books are so beautiful and intriguing that you never want to put them down, forever leaving you in anticipation to read the next page.
Some people are the same way.
Katie Douglas
