Top 100 Books But Quotes
#1. I was inspired to write children's books, but without blood and gore.
Stanley Williams
#2. I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way.
Salman Rushdie
#3. We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
Robert Caro
#4. I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.
Warren Spector
#5. People are always thinking that I'm the main character in my books, but each one has been different, and sometimes they've been men.
Sue Miller
#6. morigu the desacration and morigu the dead great books but series is unfinished
Mark C. Perry
#7. I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
Karl Barth
#8. When I was younger I only read sports books. I loved the biographies that told how athletes developed. When I got into coaching, I did start to read more instructional books, but I was always more interested in the people behind the ideas.
Tony Dungy
#9. We've reached the point where a Rhodes Scholar like Florida State's Joe O'Shea - a philosophy major, no less - is comfortable admitting not only that he doesn't read books but that he doesn't see any particular need to read them.
Nicholas Carr
#10. A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.
Nicholaa Spencer
#11. I'd always escaped into books, but now reading had become something more. It allowed me to be somewhere else, to feel something else, not just the numbness that overtook my body and made me wonder if I was still alive.
Demitria Lunetta
#12. One of the great perks of being an actor is you're only as smart as the job you're in, you know, and you're only as informed as the job you're in, and you do become an expert, and you read all the books, but then there's a part of, like, you move on.
Amy Ryan
#13. I had some friends commenting me books, but mostly it was people I didn't know. But they're fans. They're fans of the books, so they have a working knowledge of how I write, and they know what they like and what they don't like. I'm really grateful for their feedback.
Donald Miller
#14. I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.
George Hamilton
#15. Teach him, if you can, the wonder of books ... But also give him quiet time to ponder the eternal mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun, and the flowers on a green hillside,
Malala Yousafzai
#16. We have more freedom of the press than any other country in a similar position. Even way back in the frightened '50s, Communists, for example, could publish their magazine. The KKK published their own books. But face it, the mass media is controlled by money.
Pete Seeger
#17. We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children.
Charlotte Mason
#18. I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festivals and wear fancy clothes and try and look glamorous and intelligent when you're just terrified and you want to go home!
Tatiana De Rosnay
#19. It has never been easier to get books but never harder to find the quiet needed to study them.
John Mark Reynolds
#20. You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
Khaled Hosseini
#21. She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.
Vladimir Nabokov
#22. Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pictures or reading words.
Peter Schjeldahl
#23. The Henty books provide training in history and in many of the highest aspects of human character ... American young people should read not a few Henty books, but all 99 of them.
Arthur B. Robinson
#24. I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.
Ian Rankin
#25. Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.
J.K. Rowling
#26. I haven't read the 'Twilight' books. But it's everywhere so I feel like I know it. Edward, Bella, Jacob, etc. but ... I haven't read them.
Max Irons
#27. What's interesting to me is how many vampire/urban fantasy authors are writing young adult series as well, often set in the same world as their adult books, but focused on a younger audience.
Carrie Vaughn
#28. In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.
Yayoi Kusama
#29. I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer: 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved.
Chris Pine
#30. I believe in the power of ideas, I believe in the power of books, but you have to give them time.
Thomas Piketty
#31. That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men. Consequently whereunto, those persons, that for the most part can give no other proof of being wise, take great delight to shew what they think they have read in men, by uncharitable censures of one another behind their backs.
Thomas Hobbes
#32. I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
Kate Bush
#33. Intelligence is attractive, but so is life experience. You can't amass it just by reading a ton of books. But you can live a lot of life in a short time. Travel. Talk to everyone. Collect adventures, and use them to understand the world. That's how you learn to treat people well. And that's sexy.
Nicole Lapin
#34. I am deaf, I love to read the ebook and regular books. But I am not picky any kind of books. I love all books are best authors.
Charlaine Harris
#35. Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
Ramakrishna
#36. Take what interests and knowledge you can from books, but do not let them replace words and thoughts of your own.
Pai Kit Fai
#37. I don't believe in burning holy books, but I am organizing a protest. I'll be burning all my Dennis Miller VHS cassettes as a special protest. I don't want to hear the introduction 'you may have seen our next comedian on the Hannity show'.
Andy Kindler
#38. Most of them won't have a book in the house, though, when they have to, they'll talk about the latest book that's selling millions of copies around the world. Our readers may not read books, but they are fascinated by great eccentric painters who sell for billions.
Umberto Eco
#39. It's just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he'd forget my water or food and I'd cry and cry and cry." She stops talking and looks out the window. "I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.
Holly Black
#40. I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.
Jackie Collins
#41. If I can write it, I can cope. And I've been writing many books, but in every book, I try to explore something in my own soul that I need to solve, I need to understand.
Isabel Allende
#42. The most important thing in human relationship is conversation.but people don't talk anymore,they don't sit down to talk and listen.They go to theatre,the cinema,watch television,listen to the radio,read books but they almost never talk.(pg114)
Paulo Coelho
#43. Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly speaking, there is no greater teacher, no greater therapist, no greater healer of the soul, than a well-stocked library.
L.R. Knost
#44. In classrooms and living rooms across the globe, an agnostic or an atheist may be heard to strenuously argue, 'But the Bible is just a book.' Similar arguments may be raised against other holy books. But they all are too ironic, by half. A book is the Bible.
Gerald Weaver
#45. Audrey used to pass her some of her story books, but Gayle was no reader, not much or a homemaker neither, though Betty did try giving her a few lessons. I reckon Gayle lived on potato chips and Dr Pepper, and when Okey was home, they just lived on love.
Laurie Graham
#46. I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more willing to take a chance to read something if it's cheaper - sometimes books on the Kindle are $6. A hardback book is $25. For $25, it better be a really great book. Or you're going to be mad.
Caroline Leavitt
#47. I liked lots of 'Doctor Who' books, but my favourite tale was a spooky story about two invalid children - who've never met in the real world - who get trapped in a shared dreamscape when they fall asleep. It's called 'Marianne Dreams' by Catherine Storr.
Stephen Cole
#48. My own special knowledge is about the Abenaki people and, to some degree, my Iroquois neighbors. But whenever I write anything about another tribal nation, I always get a lot of help. Not just from books, but from people who belong to that tribal nation.
Joseph Bruchac
#49. I am rich because I sell a lot of books, but it's not my drive.
Pierre Dukan
#50. People need books, but they don't know they need them. Generally they are not aware that the books they need are in existence. - Roger Mifflin
Christopher Morley
#51. Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
Lord Chesterfield
#52. Many people can and have written books, but many have nothing to say.
Amy Rogers
#53. I'm not setting out to adapt books and work with books, but when really amazing stories come to you in that form, it's really hard to turn away from that.
Lenny Abrahamson
#54. I think I write for reluctant readers. Of course I want everyone to enjoy my books, but if the kids in the back row who normally don't pick up a book are engaged with what I'm writing, along with the kids who are big readers anyway, then I really feel like I've done my job.
Rick Riordan
#55. We read many books, but that does not bring us knowledge. We may read all the Bibles in the world, but that will not give us religion. Theoretical religion is easy enough to get, any one may get that. What we want is practical religion.
Swami Vivekananda
#56. I'm a huge science fan; I read a lot of science books. But I'm not a scientist, my interest in science is I love the facts, but I like to interpret those facts. They become the raw materials for stories and paintings and things.
Dave McKean
#57. You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death.
Norma McCorvey
#58. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.
Mark Twain
#59. I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.
Rainbow Rowell
#60. I was the kind of woman who got the guy in the books. But not in real life. Never in real life.
J. Lynn
#61. I loved reading all kinds of books, but I particularly loved books like 'Red Planet' by Robert Heinlein, which very few people read anymore but is a wonderful science fiction story.
Rebecca Stead
#62. Back home I was considered a bookish girl because I had read eight or nine books. But when I came to the UK I met girls who had read hundreds. Now I realize I've read hardly anything at all, and I want to read all those hundreds of books.
Malala Yousafzai
#63. When you're part of an illegal government conspiracy, your actual job description gets hazy. [...] If you're working off the books, but the books don't officially exist in the first place, have you really gone rogue, or are you just putting in unpaid overtime?
Craig Schaefer
#64. The Holy Scriptures were not given
to us that we should enclose
them in books, but that we should
engrave them upon our hearts.
John Chrysostom
#65. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
Jimmy Carter
#66. The forcible writer stands bodily behind his words with his experiences. He does not make books out of books, but he has been there in person.
Henry David Thoreau
#67. The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn't stop our minds from thinking.
Malala Yousafzai
#68. There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the true cognoscenti know graphic novels are - at their best - an amazing blend of art literature and the theater of the mind.
John Ridley
#69. The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a book, the proportions of a book, in material terms.
Jonathan Lethem
#70. I'm back at Lafayette Park after a trip to the Bodhi Tree Bookstore, not to look at the books but to rub up against the female bookworms and to catch a buzz on the free herbal tea.
Donald O'Donovan
#71. What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?
Louis Sullivan
#73. There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.
Mark Twain
#74. Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Carl Jung
#75. I expected higher prices for some books, but [there would be] flexibility for other books,
Eddy Cue
#76. I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, 'Another box arrived!' Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.
Lisa Ling
#77. I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart ... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.
John Grisham
#78. We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.
Mark Twain
#79. Like everyone else, I grew up loving the Anne books, but L.M. Montgomery is so much more. Like Jane Austen, she has an eye for the absurd and a gift for the 'mot juste.'
Lauren Willig
#80. I didn't make 'The New York Times' bestseller list until 'Charmed Thirds,' and then again for 'Fourth Comings.' It gave me a certain validation, and it certainly helps position me for future books, but it's not something I think about on a daily basis.
Megan McCafferty
#81. Imprinting."
I heard the smile disappear from Cat's face. "Next."
I repeated myself.
"Are you referring to Stephenie Meyer's books?"
"Yes," I said. A little unwillingly.
Cat chuckled. "There's no shame in reading enjoyable books. But this topic is better discussed later."
"Got it.
Shannon Delany
#82. I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
Thomas Jefferson
#83. Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.
Jo Walton
#84. I get up in the morning, do my e-mail, I check my e-mails all day. I'll go online and I'll buy my books but I don't want to buy all of them because I want to go to Duttons and I want to buy books from another human being.
Joseph Bologna
#85. One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.
Mary Roach
#86. All the world says: yes we know what's written in the books but now let's see what our eyes tell us.
Bertolt Brecht
#87. What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.
Nicolas Chamfort
#88. There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.
Margaret Fuller
#89. They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?
Gabrielle Zevin
#90. Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
Ramakrishna
#91. When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better
her husband; money; his books. But for her own part she would never for a single second regret her decision, evade difficulties, or slur over duties
Virginia Woolf
#92. If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!
Charles M. Schulz
#93. I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.
Kathryn Stockett
#94. Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.
Soren Kierkegaard
#95. [B]ecause the second time I ever saw you I learned what I had read in books but I never had actually believed: that love and suffering are the same thing and that the value of love is the sum of what you have to pay for it and anytime you get it cheap you have cheated yourself.
William Faulkner
#96. You can write books, but there's only ever one book that's really you.
Joan G. Robinson
#97. If you add up how much you read in a year on the Internet-tweets, Facebook posts, lists - you've read the equivalent of a shit ton of books, but in fact you've read no books in a year.
Trevor Noah
#98. I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.
Lynn Abbey
#99. I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#100. Late at night I go out and listen to the wind. That's all the wisdom I need. I mean, I love books, but shoot, most of the world's wisdom is not contained in books.
Sherman Alexie
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