Quotes About Heroes In Books

#1. Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear

Anthony Trollope

#2. Most of us live in two worlds -- our real world and the one we build or spin for ourselves out of the books we read, the heroes we admire, the things we hope to do.

Julia L. Sauer

#3. The weapons were pens, books, chalks and blackboards, the heroes simple teachers

Nadifa Mohamed

#4. As long as I live, I will always remember those wee children standing at the railing on that ship. - John Hanlon, the sailor

Deana J. Driver

#5. I'm not the next J. K. Rowling. We've got one already. It's flattering to be compared to her. I like her books and loved the first three particularly, but apart from the fact that they've got young boys as heroes, they're very different.

Michelle Paver

#6. Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp.

Edward Abbey

#7. she just hadn't met anyone who compared to the heroes of the books she loved. A Mr. Darcy, or a Heathcliff, or even, in the right mood, a Christian Gray . . .

Jenny Colgan

#8. Over at Marvel, I have a five-part series coming out very soon. The books or chapters will appear weekly. It's called '5 Ronin' and features some iconic Marvel heroes as you've never seen them.

Peter Milligan

#9. There are storm clouds before the storm, there are the living before the dead. I need a figurehead, a banner bearer who will announce my arrival to the world.

Kevin Outlaw

#10. When a woman enters my house, a tunnel of books welcomes her, a carnival of heroes bounces from every corner, and I lead her straight through the welcoming applause of writers and mice.

Rawi Hage

#11. We all have scars, Wharick. Mine happen to be on the the outside, Kathel answered but knew what he said wasn't entirely true. He bore scars on the inside as well.

Madison Thorne Grey

#12. I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

Luke Ford

#13. As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man, I have chalked up many a mile. Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, and I learned much from both of their styles.

Jimmy Buffett

#14. I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards.

Pat Conroy

#15. We nurture the candle flames that show the way ahead. We are guerrillas of the word, unsung heroes breathing softly on the embers of the human mind, so that they might re-ignite the hearths around which we once found safe haven. The book is the Light and the Life.

Mark Cantrell

#16. I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.

Carice Van Houten

#17. I look at my first books and am glad they weren't published ... You start writing by imitating your heroes, then you keep the heart of that worship in your work. As time goes by, you get other influences and find your own voice.

Markus Zusak

#18. In books by women and for women, it should come as no surprise that heroines are the heroes of the action, finding themselves, their power and their future through love.

Sarah MacLean