Top 100 Quotes About Too Many Books
#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
#2. A Man can never have too many books, too much red wine or too much ammunition.
Rudyard Kipling
#3. One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago
I met a little girl with a book under her arm.
I asked her why she was out so early and
she answered that there were too many books and
far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.
Tove Jansson
#4. Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.
Tom Spanbauer
#5. Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.
Rachel Kushner
#6. There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
Irwin Shaw
#8. Too many books. . . too many fairy tales led him to believe that there was something romantic in being a soldier.
Elizabeth Nelson
#9. You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!
Robertson Davies
#10. I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.
James Redfield
#12. You can never read too many books, any kind.
Nora Roberts
#13. As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn't necessarily be good.
James Gleick
#14. People who read too many books get quirky. We can't have too much eccentricity or it would bankrupt us. Market research depends on people behaving as if they were all alike.
John Taylor Gatto
#17. And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books.
P.B. Kerr
#18. How can there be too many typefaces in the world? Are there too many songs, too many books, too many places to go?
Rian Hughes
#19. The memoir industry is, what's the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books right now and the market for readers is shrinking, I think we can get rid of many of the memoirs. Another memoir should be awfully well justified before it gets published.
Arthur Phillips
#20. I'm usually reading too many books - in fact, I'm usually reading enough books that if the stack fell on me, I'd be injured.
Nick Harkaway
#22. Buy ammunition! Remember that a man cannot have too many books, too many wines, or too much ammunition. Our adversaries on the other side are reaching for the excuse of lead poisoning. If they can push that idea through, you may wind up still owning your guns but without anything to shoot in them.
Jeff Cooper
#23. Jack reads too many books. He thinks we're going to drive all year and have great adventures.
Steven Herrick
#24. I'm not courting death; I've far too many books left to read.
Alison Sinclair
#25. We have written too many books about love and so few about hunger and poverty; that is why we need to wake up and leave stupidity behind.
M.F. Moonzajer
#26. There weren't too many books by women that were taught in school, so I read those on my own, and the books I read were as accessible as the ones we were reading in school.
Jane Smiley
#27. Don't make a whole to-do about it. Don't get down on yourself be- cause you're not an expert rower; don't start reading too many books in order to do it right.
Bernie Glassman
#28. If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers.
M.F. Moonzajer
#29. There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the States.
Mitali Perkins
#30. You can't have too many books featuring people of color, just like you can't have too many books featuring white people.
Jacqueline Woodson
#31. I read one too many books about Joy Division by people who weren't there, and they always seem to dwell on the dark, the intense, the miserable image of Joy Division.
Peter Hook
#32. When we met, we were two injured souls. But keeping the real out of our lives for fear of what we might find. But nothing could have kept us apart. I never believed in destiny. Thought that was a bunch of crap for people who read too many books. Until you.
Vi Keeland
#33. Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.
Markus Zusak
#34. A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition
Rudyard Kipling
#35. It is a generally received opinion that there are too many books in the world already. I cannot, however, subscribe to any Institution that proposes to alter this state of affairs, because I find no consensus of opinion as to which are the superfluous books ...
Mary Kingsley
#36. I endorse a lot of people - sometimes people say I endorse too many books. And my response has always been the same: If I can get one case study that can give me one good idea that I can implement for $25, or for these days one-third of that on Kindle, I've gotten a very good deal.
Tom Peters
#37. So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!
Tracy Chevalier
#38. You read too many books." "No such thing!" I cried, aghast.
Kylie Scott
#39. Come, friend; you are welcome, though your notions are a little blinded with reading too many books.
James Fenimore Cooper
#41. You can never have too many books or too many hugs.
Gina House
#42. I have a very big apartment in Paris but you can't really move around there anymore; piles of books everywhere. I don't want any more books. I have too many books; sometimes I have to buy another copy of a book that I know I have somewhere in my house or office because I can't find it.
Peter Lindbergh
#43. I don't see how you can write well if you're not reading well at the same time. I think the only risk is reading too many books of one 'type' in a row.
Julia Glass
#44. When I sit down with a novel in my hand I want to enjoy the experience. That means having fun. Too many books take themselves too seriously and even a drama needs to have it's lighter moments to make the dark parts more intense.
Clayton J. Callahan
#45. So this is what I get for reading too many books I suppose.
J.C. Morrows
#46. A man can never have too many books. Neither can he have too many fountain pens, hats, fishing rods, waistcoats, tea caddies, paintings or whatever helps him to feel at home in his surroundings and communicate his personality to the world.
Fennel Hudson
#47. I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel or a best-seller and get frustrated when they can't. I've learned to despise them.
John Grisham
#49. Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#50. Some people say readin too many books will stunt your growth.
Henry Dumas
#51. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books.
Robertson Davies
#52. I've read too many books to believe what I am told.
Suheir Hammad
#53. To read too many books is harmful.
Mao Zedong
#54. There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.
Diane Setterfield
#55. There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.
Fran Lebowitz
#56. His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#57. Ah,' said Zultan. 'I, too. I keep many books at my home.' He gestured to the books in the tent. 'These are only a few. Those I think might need on this trip, and those I have yet to read and might want, and those old friends that I cannot bear to leave behind.
T. Kingfisher
#58. I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words.
Dave Barry
#59. Leaving behind books is even more beautiful - there are far too many children.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#60. Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
Mark Haddon
#61. I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?
Salman Rushdie
#62. Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.
M.J. Rose
#63. Master was a little crazy; he had spent too many years reading books overseas, talked to himself in his office, did not always return greetings, and had too much hair.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#64. I often keep my eyes open for bodies. I do. Ever since I was a kid. I think I read too many 'Nancy Drew' books.
Chelsea Cain
#65. 'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. 'Oh, they're too old to make films or write books.'
Paul Weller
#66. I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough books. Probably both.
Zoe Marriott
#67. I scanned the criticisms of recent books to see if there were any that resembled mine. I resented them all; it seemed to me too many people wrote in England, too many people had ideas.
Daphne Du Maurier
#68. Ah yet, ere I descend to the grave, May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, and many books, both true, both wise and both delightful too.
Abraham Cowley
#69. My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up.
Wentworth Miller
#70. Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end.
Dorothy Parker
#71. Once you've read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.
Jessica Zafra
#72. I always worry I've probably written one too many Bernie Gunther books and that I should probably give him his gold watch.
Philip Kerr
#73. Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are laws on the books, but absent enforcement, there are too many accidents.
Ronald Reagan
#74. The bands I like, they don't sell too many records and the girls I like, they don't kiss too many boys. Books I read will never be bestsellers yeah but come on fellas at least we made our choice.
Frank Turner
#75. I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.
Emily Dickinson
#76. One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!
Martin Luther
#77. I have many creative outlets. I sing, I like music, I like art, I paint, I draw. I like buying art. I read a lot, too. I love books. And I'm working on a clothing line, too.
Evan Ross
#78. Carlin always said that most men were dogs, and Kelsea had never taken her seriously; there were too many good books written by men.
Erika Johansen
#79. He liked women with little butts and big tits? Someone had played with one too many barbie dolls as a kid.
Kelley Armstrong
#80. Life isn't really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#81. There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don't think too many writers can say that.
Joy Fielding
#82. Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself.
Jack London
#83. I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my grandmother used to read. They have value like Paxil has value, but there's plenty of them in the world already. There's a shortage of confronting, stimulating, exciting books.
Chuck Palahniuk
#84. Books are like people: there are too many and most are garbage but we keep producing them because maybe a really amazing one will turn up though it's doubtful as fuck.
Brian Alan Ellis
#85. I can't think of too many things as exciting as reading a book for the first time!
Jen Selinsky
#86. What seems to sell books is good word-of-mouth, not promotion tours. I'm too old to believe that media promotion of a book really matters. What matters is how it will look 100 years from now, not how many copies are sold.
John Updike
#87. I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books.
Albert Einstein
#88. The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I try not to read too many reviews when a book first comes out.
Charles Baxter
#89. There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.
Martin Luther
#90. I have so many books to write now. So I'll write from home. Sometimes I'm writing in the office too, in my cubicle. It looks like a mess. It doesn't look like anybody uses the spot.
Gerard Way
#91. Digital doesn't interest me. It's too many steps removed from the actual tactile thing. I still read books. I don't read online.
Jessica Lange
#92. I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too many other things that say what goes on in someone's head than the books they have.
George Packer
#93. Too many people are buying things they can't afford, with money that they don't have ... to impress people that they don't like!"
Nothing to do w/ "books"
Just like the quote!
Will Smith
#94. It is America, I don't want the government trying to control more of my life. I want less government control, and I think there are too many government regulations, laws and taxes on the books.
Trent Lott
#95. Too many memories of her were crammed inside of me, and as soon as one of them found the slightest opening, the rest would force their way out in an endless stream, an unstoppable flood.
Haruki Murakami
#96. Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them.
Jill Lepore
#97. They are sad books, filled with sad and skinless people. There are some who do not like such books. The world, too, is crowded with the sorrowful and the sensitive. There are many who do not like such a world.
Dorothy Parker
#98. Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.
Flannery O'Connor
#99. Personally, I think the "Potter" books have too many adverbs and not enough sex.
Lev Grossman
#100. One book: too much!
Many books: never enough.
Andrei Ludu
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