Quotes About Influential Books

#1. The trouble with influential books is that if you have absorbed the influence without ever reading the original, then it can sometimes be hard to appreciate the magnitude of its achievement.

Nick Hornby

#2. The most influential books are the ones we read when we are most malleable

S.E. Sever

#3. Influential books are often a disappointment, if they're properly influential, because influence cannot guarantee the quality of the imitators, and your appetite for the original has been partially sated by its poor copies.

Nick Hornby

#4. THE WEALTH OF NATIONS is one of the most important and influential books ever written. It

Adam Smith

#5. I closed my eyes, gritting my teeth against feeding into her insanity. "I've obviously lost my mind." "Me too," she agreed as though I was actually speaking to her. "Years ago. Just let it wander. It's much more fun.

Laurel Ulen Curtis

#6. Do you think I care about anything but you?

Rainbow Rowell

#7. Donna Mills came on the show as a female antagonist, about a year before, so now they wanted to have a male antagonist. I was cast as a Senator to shake things up.

William Devane

#8. Robb Stark was a young man not expecting anything, thinking his life is going to be on one path, and then he's pushed. More weight and responsibility get put onto him; more demands are made of him. For me, as an actor, there are parallels to that.

Richard Madden

#9. Books are full of words and they are the most influential tools in the world. These seemingly innocent things strung together by letters have the power to ignite ideas, to spark a dying motivation, to fuel a passion.

Sarah Noffke

#10. The kind of stuff I usually read is a bit more on the literary side, like books that I think are influential in the sense that they're doing pulpy subject matter in a refined way. Like 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy; I loved that book.

Isaac Marion

#11. I've learned to brush off many things.

Katrina Bowden

#12. Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the world's most influential living moral philosophers. He has written 30 books on ethics and held a variety of professorial chairs over the past four decades in North America.

John Cornwell

#13. May the Gods all preserve for me (until my present form ceases) this clear and sunlit view of external reality, the instinctive awareness of my unimportance, the cosiness of being small, and the solace of being able to imagine myself happy.

Fernando Pessoa

#14. When I was 19 years old, I hitchhiked across the country to San Francisco.

John Prendergast

#15. Many books have mattered enormously to my life and work. 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens would be one of several contenders for 'most influential.' I first read it at 13 and have reread it dozens of times since.

Cheryl Mendelson

#16. Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

Alexander Pope

#17. I was almost twelve years old when I decided to kill my parents.

Armando Lucas Correa

#18. Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.

David McCullough

#19. For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money.

George Orwell

#20. Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most obscure book in the world. He must be a great fool who thinks he understands the plainest chapter of it.

Coventry Patmore

#21. The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.

Delos McKown

#22. The bible says that all people, not just believers, possess part of the image of God; that is why murder and abortion are wrong.

Rick Warren

#23. I don't know how to thank you.'
Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.

George MacDonald

#24. Well, Bradbury's a genius. Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books of all time, and The Illustrated Man as a collection of short stories ranks up there. When you read it you realize how influential it is on so many other stories and people.

Zack Snyder