Top 99 One Day Books Quotes

#1. Already there are too many books in the world. There are more every day. One man cannot hope to read them all.

Hilary Mantel

One Day Books Quotes #427
#2. For three years Albert would stay huddled in his den during the day and see almost no one, content to be alone with his books. From time to time, unshaved and sloppily dressed, he would appear in the street to take a meal or perform some errand. Then it was back to his room for more study.

Robert Cwiklik

One Day Books Quotes #24572
#3. Books seem the most potent source: each one is the sum total of a life that can be inhaled in a single day. I read fast, so I'm hoovering up lives at a ferocious pace, six or seven or eight in a week. I particularly love autobiographies: I can eat a whole person by sundown.

Caitlin Moran

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#4. Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental exercise known to man. Reading is a workout for your mind. If your body needs thirty minutes of exercise a day, so does your thinker.

Pat Williams

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#5. ONE WITH YOU Coming soon from Berkley Books!

Sylvia Day

One Day Books Quotes #141514
#6. Everybody has only a 24-hour day. Most people, if they increase consumption of one medium (like magazines or books) will cut down on another (like TV). This drastically reduces the sort of growth some people have been expecting.

Ted Nelson

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#7. I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your three books and read them and it would still be only five o'clock. The library didn't shut till half past, but you couldn't change the books till the next day.

Fay Weldon

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#8. Avid readers are a breed of their own, and we're often accused of being heady. I don't care. I love books and can devour one in a whole day if I'm allowed.

AnnaLisa Grant

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#9. Maybe one day we'll get married and we'll have a small house just for us, we'll write crazy books and we'll be famous.

Cristina Nemerovschi

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#10. With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Ezra Pound

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#11. I saw a post the other day, where someone wrote that, when they walk through a library, they touch the spines of all the books they've read , as a way of greeting their favorite characters . . .

Try that with one of my novels, and you'll walk away counting your fingers!

Max Hawthorne

One Day Books Quotes #210851
#12. Who can know anybody?' said the bookshop owner. 'Every person is like thousands of books. New, reprinting, in stock, out of stock, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, rubbish. The lot. Different every day. One's lucky to be able to put his hand on the one that's wanted, let alone know it.

Russell Hoban

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#13. Read the great books, gentlemen," Mr. Monte said one day. "Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There's not enough time.

Pat Conroy

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#14. When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day. The whole world, all human life, is one long story.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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#15. I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.

Garth Nix

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#16. One day, Aaron Levie, the twenty-six-year-old CEO of Box, a well-funded new tech company, tells me it's really important to learn from what happened in the 1990s - which is why he has read a bunch of books about that era.

Dan Lyons

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#17. One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along with the tide, suspended by my inflatable tube and water wings.

Ng Yi-Sheng

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#18. This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#19. I work on one book at a time. And yes, I am immersed. Six days a week for four to six hours a day. In between books, I stop writing for as much as two to three months, but during that time, I do research and think, plot and plan the book.

M.J. Rose

One Day Books Quotes #290532
#20. In great thick dusty books he read
And hardly ever went to bed
Before it was eleven.

- One Day When They Had Settled Down

Mervyn Peake

One Day Books Quotes #307758
#21. It's entirely different waking up in the morning and praying. I read aloud six or seven different devotional books, one of which is the Bible and ask the Lord to be with me that day.

Pat Summerall

One Day Books Quotes #311797
#22. One day my sister Virginia woke up feeling wolfish. She made wolf SOUNDS and did strange things ...

Kyo Maclear

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#23. Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.

Brian Tracy

One Day Books Quotes #321697
#24. One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

William Goldman

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#25. One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.

Carla H. Krueger

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#26. Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny thing happened along the way - I kept having new ideas, and then I looked up one day, and 30 years had passed!

Nikki Grimes

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#27. One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

William Hague

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#28. She read novels. One book after another, sometimes at the rate of one a day, for a solid year. An acceptable form of escape that didn't leave a hangover.

Wendy Wax

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#29. Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

Voltaire

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#30. There are other books in a man's library besides Ovid, and after dawdling ever so long at a woman's knee, one day he gets up and is free. We have all been there; we have all had the fever
the strongest and the smallest, from Samson, Hercules, Rinaldo, downward: but it burns out, and you get well.

William Makepeace Thackeray

One Day Books Quotes #524133
#31. I dream that one day I would be a published writer and people would read my books - if not, I would be living in the mountains in a small hut, near a pond where swans swim, writing a diary for myself.

Srinidhi.R

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#32. And Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.

Louisa May Alcott

One Day Books Quotes #562725
#33. Time is one terrible enemy.

EXO Books

One Day Books Quotes #568206
#34. He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.

Neil Gaiman

One Day Books Quotes #595178
#35. When I was acting, as a hobby, I would devour popular science books and keep up-to-date about what was going on in the science community. And then, suddenly my hobby became my job. I didn't one day say, "I'm not acting. I'm now going to be a science person."

Dallas Campbell

One Day Books Quotes #615818
#36. My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.

Alberto Manguel

One Day Books Quotes #625362
#37. I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They all meditate every day. I consider yoga my meditation.

Kristian Bush

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#38. Understood what the books and the generals always repeated: that armies did not kill each other, they broke each other, that the day would be won when one army believed it could not survive. A matter of deception, of conviction, of lies made true through performance. Like everything else.

Seth Dickinson

One Day Books Quotes #640087
#39. I then completely gave up reading newspapers and watching television, which freed up a considerable amount of time (say one hour or more a day, enough time to read more than a hundred additional books per year, which, after a couple of decades, starts mounting).

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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#40. Life was a too-tall stack of books that had started to lean to one side, and each new day was another book on top.

Rebecca Stead

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#41. One day there will be no books ... Yeah right.

Maria The Lone Wolf

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#42. An ancient mustiness padded the air, tinged with with an acrid scent-a trace of the war between paper and oxygen, played out in slow inexorable burn that would one day crumble this empire to dust. -page 62

Jennifer Lee Carrell

One Day Books Quotes #713881
#43. He was always teasing me about not reading books, but one day he said: Reading a book is a dangerous thing, Justine. A book can make you find room in yourself for something you never thought you'd understand. Or worse, something you never wanted to understand.

Glen Duncan

One Day Books Quotes #756049
#44. When I was five I learned to read. Books were a miracle to me - white pages, black ink, and new worlds and different friends in each one. To this day, I relish the feeling of cracking a binding for the first time, the anticipation of where I'll go and whom I'll meet inside.

Jennifer Weiner

One Day Books Quotes #775028
#45. Nevertheless we cherish all books, especially the unread ones, for who knows what secrets they might yield one day?
- p.397, as by Larry Zagorski, in his short story "The City of the Sun

Jake Arnott

One Day Books Quotes #789206
#46. If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per week translates into about 50 books per year. 50 books per year will translate into about 500 books over the next ten years.

Brian Tracy

One Day Books Quotes #791278
#47. Writing is a Passion, Art is my Dreams, Crafting is something I Enjoy.

The day one stops learning is the day one stops living.

Carol Hopkins

One Day Books Quotes #793962
#48. One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.

John Muir

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#49. To become a 'good reader' one must give oneself over to a regime of concentrated pleasure. One does not set out to read a book a day (there is no necessary pleasure in that) but may spend two or three years on one book [. . .], read only portions of another, devour a third at a single sitting.

Michael Schmidt

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#50. Trying to mold one's life around the heroic and deep souls one found in books. Day read as if her whole life depended upon it.

David Brooks

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#51. In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?

Ruth Benedict

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#52. It was a strange man, a kind of black humorist, a true philosopher. One day he said: "If my books could ensure an increase in the number of murders, well, it will mean that they have been quite useful in some way or another."

William C. Brown

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#53. I literally fell into this business. I never came down one day and said, "Atticus' thought of the day ... I want to be an actor!" My mom and I would always read story books out loud together and I loved doing character voices and playing with my voice.

Atticus Shaffer

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#54. No doubt my books too, like my mortal being, would eventually die, one day. But one has to resign oneself to dying. One accepts the thought that in ten years oneself, in a hundred years one's books, will not exist. Eternal duration is no more promised to books than it is to men.

Marcel Proust

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#55. From the book:
Fall On Your Knees pg. 124
One day, I'll sit down with all my books around me, and just start reading.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

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#56. One is never alone with a book nearby, don't you agree? Every page reminds us of a day that has passed and makes us relive the emotions that filled it. Happy hours underlined in red pencil, dark ones in black ...

Arturo Perez-Reverte

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#57. I couldn't suppress a smile. It was inconceivable that I was here, in a place as extraordinary as the fantasy books Sophie loved. Maybe...just maybe those stories are based on a measure of truth. Maybe one day I'd write our story.

Heather L. L. FitzGerald

One Day Books Quotes #967175
#58. Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.

Peggy A. Borel

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#59. I had a few people ask me if I might one day write my own autobiography. I just told them, 'It's already being written; through my books.

T.S. Wieland

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#60. The conflict each day is whether to immerse in books or writing. I can't do one without the other, but I can't do both at the same time. It is the writer's paradox.

Patricia Hickman

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#61. My father, whose hobby was collecting secondhand cricket books, came back from a book fair one day with a copy of 'The Body In The Library.'

Sophie Hannah

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#62. The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

Benjamin Franklin

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#63. Such are contrasts we see every day in the world. Joy and Sorrow! But Joy is an exile from Heaven who does not remain in any one place. Sorrow is a son of Hell who does not release his prey until he has torn it to pieces.

Gertrudis Gomez De Avellaneda

One Day Books Quotes #1099465
#64. Careful," he chided with a grin. "First you talk marriage and now you're telling me what to eat. You're sounding more and more like a real girlfriend every day. Just remember, this is still our first date, so keep your hands to yourself tonight. I'm not one of those guys.

Jennifer Shirk

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#65. The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.

Nicolas Chamfort

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#66. 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

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#67. Always be prepared one day the electricity will stop if your phone isn't charged well and you don't have the need stuff you will get bored very easy. For example you can't read a physical book, you will need a torchlight, but if you have a book on your phone you can read it also you can listen!

Deyth Banger

One Day Books Quotes #1167983
#68. Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.

David Nicholls

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#69. 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

One Day Books Quotes #1194565
#70. Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.

L. M. Boyd

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#71. One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather.

Anne Bronte

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#72. The Number One Rule of Working Is: DO THE BEST WORK YOU CAN. Why do anything but your best? What's the point?

Carew Papritz

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#73. Everything is going well "Day One" book up to page 137, planning som new movies to watch in the near future, close to awesome and powerful quotes. Some new and awesome events... - And that's life, that's how it must be!

Deyth Banger

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#74. Here is a nice fact books and ebooks take a lot of time to be read, but audiobooks just for one day or 2 you finish them... this is a great fact!

Deyth Banger

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#75. Flowers for Algernon again? she asks. Doesn't that book always make you cry?
One day it won't, I say. I want to be sure to be reading it on that day.

Nicola Yoon

One Day Books Quotes #1320299
#76. One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words in your books, don't you?' No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: 'Well, you'll never find her books in the Christian bookstore.'

Jill McCorkle

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#77. I was angry at myself for my inclination to vice. I longed for the day when a state of frenzy would lead my mind to sober pasture, just as it had for Saint Augustine. I longed for the day when the love of one woman would be sacred enough to forget all the rest.

Roman Payne

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#78. I jotted down Oslo After Death. This would be a great title for a book, I thought. That is what I do sometimes. I jot down titles for books that I one day intend to write.

John Corey Whaley

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#79. Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books.

Dick Bruna

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#80. In my day, MI6 - which I called the Circus in the books - stank of wartime nostalgia. People were defined by secret cachet: one man did something absolutely extraordinary in Norway; another was the darling of the French Resistance. We didn't even show passes to go in and out of the building.

John Le Carre

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#81. After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I love the process of writing and, if I allowed myself, I would write far too much every day. One weakness which I've struggled to overcome is my tendency to having my characters ruminate for pages.

Walter Dean Myers

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#82. One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.

E. Lockhart

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#83. I wrote six nonfiction books before getting into narrative fiction with 'Robopocalypse,' including 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising.' My goal all along was to start writing fiction, and I guess one day I'd just had enough.

Daniel H. Wilson

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#84. The next day we left for Rome. I had decided to make my books last and read only one book a week, but instead I gorged myself on them.

Jo Walton

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#85. I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.
(Interview with The Booklovers blog, September 2010)

Gail Carriger

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#86. A person who burns books will one day burn people...

Jacob McGilbert

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#87. Of course it's your fault," Grandma said. "You must be doing something wrong, if you know what I mean. Maybe you need to buy a book that tells you how to do it. I hear there are books out there with pictures and everything. I saw one in the store the other day. It was called A Sex Guide for Dummies.

Janet Evanovich

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#88. In a fit at the bookstore one day, I bought all my favourite composers' biographies: Schubert, Massenet, Wolf. I've still not had a chance to read them; it breaks my heart. But when you travel so much, you just can't take that many books with you.

Danielle De Niese

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#89. Quietly she wished he might one day again spend as much time holding and touching her like a little harp as he did his incredible books.

Ray Bradbury

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#90. One day as Frieda the Fox was walking home from lunch with some friends,
she heard a noise and stopped to see if she heard the noise again.
She heard a loud banging sound, a growl, and then a thump.
She crept closer and saw a blue dumpster and a big brown furry rump!

Kimberly Baltz

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#91. To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful.

David James Duncan

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#92. If the day was bright, I would buy a liter of wine and a piece of bread and some sausage and sit in the sun and read one of the books I had bought and watch the fishing.

Ernest Hemingway,

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#93. When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

Elizabeth Kostova

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#94. It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books.

David McCullough

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#95. Suddenly, Walter was aware of all the things he did not know. There were hundreds--thousands--of books in the world, and he had read only a handful of them. One day he would die, a myriad of books unread, his knowledge of the world incomplete.

Barbara Wersba

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#96. That bookshops will one day disappear altogether and be replaced by mail order, that eventually books themselves would be finally and fully buried by that awful foe, so much cheaper and easier to carry: newspapers.

Matthew Pearl

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#97. There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.

Anais Nin

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#98. I also wanted you to realize that even though the pain will always be there, I'm living proof you can get past this. Right now I know it feels impossible, but one day you'll look back and see how far you've come.

E.L. Montes

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#99. I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

Orhan Pamuk

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