Quotes About Sharing Books

#1. Today, we see some "file sharing" sites that rely on fans uploading cracked copies of ebooks, and which then make money off those books by charging for downloads (via cash subscriptions or advertising). Again: I take a dim view of this. They're making money off the back of my work without paying me.

Charles Stross

#2. The essence of this book is that you must train day and night in order to make quick decisions.

Anonymous

#3. She liked getting hold of some book ... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning without sharing her thoughts with any one, or having to decide whether the book was a good one or a bad one.

Virginia Woolf

#4. I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

Catherine Deneuve

#5. In the beginning - not now, thank God - Patty was always sharing the important books of her life with him, like Black Elk Speaks, The Golden Bough, and Hero with a Thousand Faces.

Richard Price

#6. I enjoy sharing my books as I do my friends, asking only that you treat them well and see them safely home.

Ernest Morgan

#7. I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870.

John Harvey Kellogg

#8. But it (serial television) doesn't remain in the mind. It doesn't produce positive effects in political terms, in ideological terms. My impression is that this extraordinary digital revolution is producing also an extraordinary confusion.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#9. This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon years of teaching and sharing magic and worse. Writing it down in fancy books that get all dusty with age has lessened it, removed its power bit by bit.

Erin Morgenstern

#10. We have fried catfish, country fried steak and cinnamon-roasted pork. We have collard greens, black-eyed peas, hush puppies, biscuits, sweet potato pie and lots of gravy. Most players love it, but we also have a baked catfish for players who are still looking to stay on the approved diet.

Mark Farner

#11. She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.

Fredrik Backman

#12. There is no greater joy than to share what you love with those who appreciate it.

Bernard Jan

#13. generally we hid in corners, defying everyone with our independence and stuff. Like sharing our sticker books amongst ourselves only. (Those popular bitches never saw my Pegasus page, and it was EPIC.)

Felicia Day

#14. One of the things we love about Po [Kung Fu Panda] is that he's vulnerable. He's someone that we can all identify with because he has those insecurities. He's an outsider feeling guy.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#15. Senor Sempere believed that God lives, to a smaller or greater extent, in books, and that is why he devoted his life to sharing them, to protecting them, and to making sure their pages, like our memories and our desires, are never lost.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#16. The love of books, of reading. There is nothing a librarian likes better than sharing her love of words with a child.

Kristin Hannah

#17. Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.

Donalyn Miller

#18. People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from windex. Yes, I do windows.

Carol Burnett

#19. Can you imagine a world without books to read?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

Bob Iger

#21. I used to find that I could get mental serenity surrounded by chaos.

Alexis Knapp

#22. This world does not exist to you when you are missing.

Debasish Mridha

#23. Please don't encourage or espouse e-piracy...the sharing, swapping, or trading of e-books is outlawed by the DMCA unless authorized by the copyright holder.

Fran Lee

#24. Every book begins and ends with other people- the readers who suggest the book to us and encourage us to read it, the talented author who crafted each word, the fascinating individuals we meet inside the pages- and the readers we discuss and share the book with when we finish.

Donalyn Miller

#25. Conversations and jokes together, mutual rendering of good services, the reading together of sweetly phrased books, the sharing of nonsense and mutual attentions.

Robertson Davies

#26. I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

Sara Sheridan

#27. In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.

Stephen Hawking

#28. It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and their authors.

Alice Steinbach

#29. A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.

Gabrielle Dubois

#30. The greatest possessions I leave for my children are books.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.

Mortimer J. Adler

#32. It is really not the number of things you do , but the efficiency of each separate action that counts.

Wallace D. Wattles

#33. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.

Neil Gaiman

#34. Just as movies, radio, and television evolved into new forms over time, the ebook will also become something more than just a way to read books. It will become its own specific and unique way of creating and sharing experience.

David Gerrold

#35. With a slow wink, he set the book in Tamaqua's hands. "One of my favorites.

C.J. Milbrandt

#36. Writing is a psychological process. It is the process of taking what is in your mind and sharing it with others.

Gudjon Bergmann

#37. Within our emotions lie answers, truths and instructions.

Sam Owen

#38. I don't remember any snow in all of the Torah. The Lord probably doesn't even go to places where it snows.

Christopher Moore

#39. The BBC's aim, along with schools, libraries and literacy groups, to involve more people in reading groups is an exciting idea and one that I hope will keep readers all over the UK exploring and sharing the wonderful world of books.

Tessa Jowell