Top 100 Quotes About Books
#1. We lose ourselfs in books, we find ourself's there to
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#2. She'd never taken much interest in reading. She read, of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to other people.
Alan Bennett
#3. Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great.
Sam Amidon
#5. I read the 'Harry Potter' books as I was writing my own books, and I love them, but I don't think Harry was very much like I was as a kid. He's always brave, and he's perfect in a lot of ways.
Jeff Kinney
#6. Human reason is beautiful and invincible.
No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books,
No sentence of banishment can prevail against it.
It puts what should be above things as they are.
It does not know Jew from Greek nor slave from master.
Czeslaw Milosz
#7. I loved reading Roald Dahl when I was young but I had forgotten a lot about the books. I read the 'BFG' on the iPad the other day and it was so interesting to see his descriptions of clothes and places.
Frank Lampard
#8. Her grandfather's books [ ... ] opened before Ada, a world whose colours were so dazzling that reality paled in comparison and faded away. Boris Godunov, Satan, Athalia, King Lear: they all spoke words charged with meaning; every syllable was inexpressively precious
Irene Nemirovsky
#9. I think there is something in my books that says these are people doing their best under difficult circumstances - sometimes they do wrong things and make mistakes, but who doesn't? And who wants to read about somebody who never does?
Sonya Hartnett
#10. I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line.
Robert Kirkman
#11. America is a melting pot for all different groups of people, historically. And it's rare that the story of all of these people will be told in the history books. So I always felt I had to find out my history for myself and research my roots.
Nas
#12. I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.
Jo Nesbo
#13. The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.
Algernon Blackwood
#14. I want to spend my life with someone and do nice things and go on adventures, read books and have nice food and celebrate things. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in the bedroom like some people who just go to bed and never get out again.
Tracey Emin
#16. I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.
A. N. Wilson
#17. When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow's 'One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.'
Mark Frauenfelder
#18. All of my books are acts of subversion disguised as historical fiction.
Kelly Gardiner
#19. Love's not some amorphous concept created for books and poetry and not attainable. It's real and vital, and it's necessary. Damn it.
Nora Roberts
#20. Books are a great equalizer. You may not have the money to travel the world, but with a library card as your passport your horizons for exploration and self-discovery are unlimited.
Shireen Dodson
#21. I used to write reviews for 'Artbomb.' Our policy was to only cover books we loved and recommended.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
#22. I've already worked on at least a dozen dream books. I'm definitely not starving for something, like, "Agh, if only!" It's the opposite.
Ian Christe
#23. Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all the great books. And no book ever created a soul.
Swami Vivekananda
#24. At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.
Rudy Rucker
#25. 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
#26. All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person.
Hermann Hesse
#27. He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
Swami Vivekananda
#28. Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.
Diane Setterfield
#29. There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding stuff. It's like all the books are fighting against decay, against turning into dust, and at the same time fighting for attention.
Carrie Jones
#30. The earliest books in the New Testament to be written were the Epistles, not the Gospels. It's almost as though Saint Paul and others who wrote the Epistles weren't that interested in whether Jesus was real.
Richard Dawkins
#31. Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.
Alec-Tweedie
#33. My grandfather always says that's what books are for. To travel without moving an inch.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#34. The availability of books is not the same as reading them, nor reading the same as understanding them.
Ian Campbell Ross
#35. I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures.
Tony Kaye
#36. I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.
Alan Hollinghurst
#37. 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
#38. Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.
Jackie French
#39. If you stand at the window where I stood, if you read the books that I read, if we can be with each other even just like that ... then lets, count that as us being together. I'll miss you alot. I love you. I love you ...
T.O.P
#40. I like to keep my books in my library, he said, 'and I like my library to get bigger rather than smaller.
Joseph Delaney
#41. My son was born during my last semester in college. His due date was Thanksgiving, but he didn't show up until finals week. I brought my books to the hospital and didn't think anything of it. That is what a father is supposed to do.
LZ Granderson
#42. We needed to be autodidacts; we needed to pass books from hand to hand; we needed to search, and thus be inspired by hard-won effort to create ourselves. We needed to understand that there is power in searching and finding and not having things handed to us.
Kathleen Collins
#43. I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.
Nina Bawden
#44. I asked myself what it was that I wanted from writing and where my connection with books began, and the answer to that question was definitely in childhood, because that's where my connection with reading began.
Rebecca Stead
#45. Hearts are like Books. You cannot understand one by flipping the pages or by reading the last chapter
Alok Jagawat
#46. I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
Billy Joel
#47. There's a convention that books are mirrors of the real world, but our fact-obsessed age also wants fiction to be factually based and trustworthy.
Jim Crace
#48. Since 1966, hundreds of books have been published that follow murderers along their paths of destruction. Every serial killer, it seems, now has a biographer or two.
Eric Schlosser
#49. Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
Evan Esar
#50. 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
#51. I don't read books. I read the Daily Express and The Star.
Tim Sherwood
#52. 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
#53. Ninety percent of the children's books patronize the child and say there's a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don't do that. I treat the child as an equal.
Dr. Seuss
#54. Guilty, Your Honor, but only of minor transgressions. My motto is, 'Let no girl, no gun, no cards, no violins, no dress, no tobacco, no laziness keep you from your books.
Irving Stone
#55. 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
#56. Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget how it felt to read those books. I want to write books with the same power to transport readers into another time and place.
Jennifer Armstrong
#58. The invariable question, asked only half-mockingly of reporters by editors at the Post (and then up the hierarchical line of editors) was 'What have you done for me today?' Yesterday was for the history books, not newspapers.
Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward
Carl Bernstein
#59. Some books and authors are best sellers, but most aren't. It may be easier to self-publish than it is to traditionally publish, but in all honesty, it's harder to be a best seller self-publishing than it is with a house.
Amanda Hocking
#60. There's so much stuff being written! Every year, how many books come out? I can't keep up, and I read a lot. It's amazing.
Victoria Chang
#61. Most books germinate within you for a long time before they are ready to come out. I wrote several drafts of the novel over many years and when I finally got to the last one, it didn't take much time.
Pankaj Mishra
#62. As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.
Peter S. Beagle
#63. I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#64. I get really excited if I think I'm going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven't found before and I think they'll love. My favorite books to get as gifts are any that the giver is messianic about.
Monica Ali
#65. Every book is like starting over again. I've written books every way possible - from using tight outlines to writing from the seat of my pants. Both ways work.
Bruce Coville
#66. The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#67. Digital texts are all well and good, but books on shelves are a presence in your life. As such, they become a part of your day-to-day existence, reminding you, chastising you, calling to you. Plus, book collecting is, hands down, the greatest pastime in the world.
Michael Dirda
#68. Libraries are more than just a storage place for books, they are treasure troves filled with creativity and knowledge. And that knowledge can be empowering.
R.L. Hemlock
#69. Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me.
Paul Theroux
#70. Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the country. Why not open their books if they have nothing to hide?
Mo Ibrahim
#71. I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.
John Henry Mackay
#72. Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.
Laura Matilda Towne
#73. I'm a writer who stacks cat food for a living. It's true: I have a master's degree in creative writing, I've published two critically successful books, and I get paid to replenish the shelves of my local food co-op with pet food, sponges and toilet paper. Nine days out of 10, I do it quite happily.
Ali Liebegott
#74. Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
Michael Morpurgo
#75. I used to think then that all the tragic events of life were written down in books and that what went on outside was just diluted crap.
Henry Miller
#76. I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn't hurt the book.
Paul Auster
#77. Reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose
electronic or printed or audio
is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in the human conversation.
Will Schwalbe
#78. They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.
George MacDonald
#79. The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.
Jonathan Coe
#80. I made a list of things I wanted to do with my life, but it ended up mostly being a list of books I wanted to write
Ellie Rose McKee
#81. His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#82. So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
William Hazlitt
#83. No matter how much people want to pretend that they're embarrassed by it, that they don't watch it, everybody knows about it. It's truly, I believe, one of the only art forms that America has actually given to the world, besides jazz and comic books.
CM Punk
#84. You will not publish 100% of the books you don't write.
M. Kirin
#85. I feel a pang of pity for the logbook, its secrets are all plucked out in minutes by this whirlwind of light and metal. Books used to be pretty high-tech, back in the day. Not anymore.
Robin Sloan
#86. Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
Nawal El Saadawi
#87. I liked reading books that nearly killed me, books that helped tell me who I was, the son who spites his father by reading such books.
Don DeLillo
#88. Which is my favourite book??
Very complicated question... so far... I think that the question should be "My favourite books...!".
Deyth Banger
#89. I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books.
Colin Wilson
#90. I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.
Jeff VanderMeer
#91. 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
#92. My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is smarter.
Chuck Palahniuk
#93. If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective.
Eric Kandel
#94. We weave together the many skeins of our words,
Into poems and stories and books,
And the books are made so much more vivacious and colourful,
For all the care that is woven in along with the words.
Bree Verity
#95. Art is a social object, books and films and records and television shows, they're social objects that bring people together in conversation. I love the notion that I could write something that two people could share. That's the goal.
Graham Moore
#96. I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.
Kate Atkinson
#97. People do judge books by their covers; it's human nature. They react to the way you look before they hear a single word that comes out of your mouth.
Jeff Garvin
#98. The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.
Samuel Smiles
#99. Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.
James Ellroy
#100. The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
Macaulay Culkin
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