Top 100 Books You Quotes
#1. Your taste in music, the kinds of books you enjoy, even your favorite foods all contribute to the person you are and the portfolio you're creating - and therefore, make up your calling.
Jeff Goins
#2. The problem with making movies is that you have to devote so much of your life to fawning and flattering the men in suits, whereas that doesn't happen in books. You just go and write, and then the book comes out.
Richard Flanagan
#3. It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, but it is the frequency and earnestness with which you meditate on these things till the truth in them becomes your own and part of your being, that insures your growth.
Frederick William Robertson
#4. Do you ever hide books you've read over and over again because you're so sick of them?'
'Oh, definitely. When they ask for them, I say the book fairy came to get it. One time they saw one of the books at the library, so now they think the librarians are book fairies.
Gina Sheridan
#6. Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.
John Grisham
#7. It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books.
Ray Bradbury
#8. Stop drifting. You're not going to re-read your Brief Comments, your Deeds of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, the commonplace books you saved for your old age. Sprint for the finish. Write off your hopes, and if your well-being matters to you, be your own savior while you can.
Marcus Aurelius
#9. Andy Clark has several books you can find on Amazon, including 'Natural Born Cyborgs' and 'Being There.' I particularly recommend 'Being There' to anybody who still thinks the Cartesian separation of mind and body should be taken seriously.
Karl Schroeder
#10. I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.
Lev Grossman
#11. The energy of book titles and the words inside them are very powerful. In Japan, we say that "words make our reality." The words we see and with which we come into contact tend to bring about events of the same nature. In that sense, you will become the person who matches the books you have kept.
Marie Kondo
#12. Empty lipstick cases are like spent cartridges from the eternal war that is love. A used tube has the quality of those books you are reluctant to give away and they line the shelves in my bathroom, mementos of nights to remember.
Chloe Thurlow
#13. You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they'll say about you in the future.
Bret Easton Ellis
#14. That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics; all that has survived, and all that has no reason to survive - books you can read without thinking, and books you have to read if you want to think at all.
Anthony Lane
#15. Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.
Paxton Hood
#16. I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them.
Megan Fox
#17. Could time be measured in the books you have read and the books you haven't read?
Antonia Honeywell
#18. Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.
Gayle Forman
#19. No matter how many books you've written, whenever you sit down to write a new book, you always feel the same challenge - how do you shape this story into a book that people are going to love.
Cassandra Clare
#20. The Word of God is the wisdom of God. It makes no difference how educated you are, how many books you've read, or what you think you know in life, or about life; if you don't have the Word in you, you can't function in the wisdom of God.
Chris Oyakhilome
#21. It's not how many books you get through, it's how many books get through you.
Mortimer Adler
#22. All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.
Lemony Snicket
#23. So it was that she knew she liked him, loved him as they said in the soppy English books, you were shamed and a fool to say that in Scotland.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
#24. The books you read in childhood shape the person you become.
Paula Berinstein
#25. Because there is a belief that once you begin to open books, you will become a better person. It is Pandora's box, but in a good way. You are inching toward the promised land, page by page.
Don Borchert
#26. Friends are like books, you learn from every one of them.
Debasish Mridha
#27. The subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.
Carolyn Wells
#28. The most important thing is spiritual labor...Books...You can wear the same suit for twenty years, two coats are enough for a lifetime, but you can't live without Pushkin or the complete works of Gorky.
Svetlana Alexievich
#29. Books you've read are like old friends. You look up and you see a title that you've read and had pleasure from and it makes you feel very comfortable.
~Robert A.M. Stern, Architect
Estelle Ellis
#30. I love you to the moon and back - you read that in one of the picture books you brought to my house whenI was sick. It's becoming this thing with us. I melt. And you knew I would. You've got all these aces up your sleeve - a real card shark.
Heather Demetrios
#31. Real teenage boys aren't like characters in the books you read. They smell funny and are obsessed with video games and say dumb things. They're still learning, just like you.
Stacey Jay
#33. I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people you meet and the books you read.
Twyla Tharp
#34. Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. Oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love.
Sathya Sai Baba
#35. A multitude of books only gets in one's way. So if you are unable to read all the books in your possession, you have enough when you have all the books you are able to read.
Seneca.
#36. With books, you can have as many boyfriends as you want, and no one gets upset, jealous or calls you out for cheating. It's a win-win.
J.B. Morgan
#37. With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom.
Richard Stallman
#38. If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.
Don Nickles
#39. Use more caution the next time you make a reading selection. Books, you know, are a lot like people, and each and every one of us is ultimately judged by the company we keep
Ethan Russell Erway
#40. By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.
Desiderius Erasmus
#41. Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years.
Dorothea Dix
#42. You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
Ansel Adams
#43. That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve.
Johnny Ball
#44. Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.
Joanne Harris
#45. There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#46. You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Voltaire
#47. The more books you read,the smarter you get
Me
#48. I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
Calvin Trillin
#49. I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
#50. It's great being a part time writer. If you sell books you're a success. But if you don't sell any then all you have to say is " writing is just an amusing hobby".
Aaron T. Knight
#51. You've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books, you're very well read, it's well known.
Bob Dylan
#52. friends are like books you use them when you need them but u will always remember them
Yasmine Gooneratne
#53. In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of This is me!
Nick Hornby
#54. I need gnome books. You know, because sorcerers just don't get them. He didn't get the joke.
Chloe Neill
#55. If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women.
Lisa Randall
#56. The difference between where you are today and where you'll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you've read.
Jim Rohn
#57. Some books you read and savor. Some, you carry close to your heart.
S.R. McKade
#58. Don't drop your books. You might lose your lesson.
Greg Mathis
#59. The law is always too short and too tight for growing humankind. The best you can do is do something and then make up some law to fit and by the time that law gets on the books you would have done something different. Do
Robert Penn Warren
#60. Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
Carmen Agra Deedy
#61. Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?
Edith Wharton
#62. You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
Samantha Morton
#63. Every time that you read a book that is worth anything, the author has put everything they know into that book; so when you read that book, you eat their life. You kind of go up a level; so if you read 50 books, you've lived 50 lifetimes.
CBC interview Q with Jian Gomeshi Sept.23, 2014
Caitlin Moran
#64. You don't put your life into books. You find it there.
Alan Bennett
#65. Reading books you like can soothe an invisible wound that irritatingly bleeds one's mood.
Angelica Hopes
#66. You will not publish 100% of the books you don't write.
M. Kirin
#67. If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.
Jim Rohn
#68. My first six books were horror, I think because when I was young I loved Stephen King. John Wyndham, Daphne Du Maurier, and it's natural to try and emulate the books you first loved.
Sarah Pinborough
#69. Hearts are like Books. You cannot understand one by flipping the pages or by reading the last chapter
Alok Jagawat
#70. The world is telling you through The New York Times and The New York Review of Books "You must shut up. You must never appear again. Because you are not relevant to us." So you have to fight their attempt to destroy you, fight to continue feeling.
James Purdy
#71. Love, for me, is something I find in books. You're never alone if you are surrounded by books
Sophie Divry
#72. You don't discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do not like is the gateway drug to other books you may prefer them to read. And not everyone has the same taste as you.
Neil Gaiman
#73. ...because there's a secret order. The books, you can't place them random. The other day I put Cervantes next to Tolstoj.
And I thought, if close to Anna Karenina we have Don Quixote, sure the latter will do his best to save her.
Ettore Scola
#74. If you eat enough books, you start pooping out words.
Caitlin Moran
#75. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
#76. If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.
Amos Oz
#77. Read day and night, devour books - these sleeping pills - not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.
Emil Cioran
#78. Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.
Holly Black
#79. That is the magical thing about books. You can listen to all the greatest people who have ever lived, anywhere in the world, in any civilization. You can see what is completely different about them, things you never imagined.
Anne Perry
#80. The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the same life; they belong to the same social class, the same milieu, they have the same experiences. Once you read one of those books, you have read them all. And this is a problem.
Pascal Bruckner
#81. I feel as if someone is going to come along, feel my collar and say: 'Do you really think you can get people to read books you've made up about people that don't exist?'
Deborah Moggach
#82. Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read.
John Wooden
#84. You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.
Katherine Paterson
#85. The etiquette of blurbs means it's not hard to not blurb something (if it's not by a friend, or student): everyone knows how many books you're deluged with. You can just say you never got to it.
Jim Shepard
#86. Everybody wants confidence but you don't find it in self help books. You find confidence in the Holy Spirit.
Rick Warren
#87. There are many teenage vampire books you could have purchased instead. I'm grateful you made this choice.
Mindy Kaling
#88. Never read books you aren't sure about . . . even supposing that these bad books are very well written from a literary point of view. Let me ask you this: Would you drink something you knew was poisoned just because it was offered to you in a golden cup?
John Bosco
#89. I figured if you're a man who knows his books, you can deal with the literary types who come out when the moon is full.
Ivan Doig
#90. A library - a place full of books! Imagine!" Ivy couldn't imagine a place closer to heaven. Think of all the books you could read!
Gemma Jackson
#91. I find myself coming out of the library with all women writers. I keep hoping the library attendant won't notice, but when 8 out of 8 of the books you take out are by women, you try not to look too dykey.
Eve Babitz
#92. If we lose our phones, we lose our phone books. You don't memorize numbers anymore.
Ellen DeGeneres
#93. You are the same today as you'll be in five years except for two things: the books you read and the people you meet." Charlie James
Joanna Penn
#94. You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#95. I read Wolfe's new book _ The Story of a Novel_ and as usual he stole the whole damn thing from me. I am going to write and say will you please stop writing books you bastard.
Jean Stafford
#96. Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.
Sam Ewing
#97. How can you not understand?" He pointed at her books. "You read novels. Obviously, I'm here to rescue you. Don't I look like Sir Galahad?" He raised his arms dramatically. "My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure
Cassandra Clare
#98. Sibling relationships figure in a lot of my books. You don't often see relationships between adult siblings explored in fiction.
Dara Horn
#99. Fiction allows for moral questioning, but through the back door. Personally, I like books that make you think - books you're still wondering about three days after you finish them; books you hand to a friend and say "Read this, so we can talk about it."
Jodi Picoult
#100. You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.
Joanna Trollope
