Top 100 The Best Books Quotes
#1. It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#2. No shame in having a ghostwriter," Storm said. "Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose identity the public will never know.
Richard Castle
#3. The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
William Ellery Channing
#4. Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.
Lord Chesterfield
#5. Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.
John Erskine
#6. Associate with noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone.
Rely upon your own energies, and so not wait for, or depend on other people.
Thomas Davidson
#8. The best books act like a powerful drug--they take you out of your own head into experiences, emotions and settings a million miles away.
Anonymous-9
#9. The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.
Fran Tarkenton
#10. The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.
Robert Morgan
#11. I've always loved literature, and the best books I read were always trilogies.
Dawn Angelique
#12. One of the best books I've read was George S. Clason's The Richest Man in Babylon, which offers financial advice in a collection of parables.
Sophia Amoruso
#13. A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books - the best books - give us: a lifeline, a reason to believe, a way to breathe more freely.
Blake Morrison
#14. It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#15. One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.
Rudyard Kipling
#16. The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.
Julian Barnes
#17. I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined with all the best books, somewhere to live when the rest of the world blew up.
Bruce Chatwin
#19. Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.
Saul Bellow
#20. I'm surviving and developing as a writer. I don't know what brings you to mass attention in terms of sales. But I've gotten more and more comfortable with it. Of course if that changes, I'll be comfortable with that. All I can do is write the best books I can.
Daniel Woodrell
#21. Sometimes the best books are hidden gems that you didn't even know were out there!
Carmela Dutra
#22. The best books come from someplace deep inside ... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.
Judy Blume
#23. The popular culture gives us books that offer entertainment but no ideas. High culture gives us books that offer ideas but no entertainment. The best books manage to do both.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#24. Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us.
Michael Morpurgo
#25. Originals by Adam Grant is one of the best books I've read on how to be more creative at work and how to think outside the box, sell your ideas, and make a difference. 10.YOUR CREATIVE LIFE. The War of Art by Steven
Vishen Lakhiani
#26. It's not so much that nothing means
anything but more that it keeps meaning
nothing.
there's no release, just gurus and self-
appointed gods and hucksters.
the more people say, the less there is to say.
even the best books are dry sawdust.
Charles Bukowski
#27. It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
William Ellery Channing
#28. Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.
Desiderius Erasmus
#29. The best books - like the best music or television or movies or comics or video games - can challenge us and force us to think or perceive aspects of life that we may prefer to avoid. In a sense, they threaten us.
Geoffrey Reiter
#30. The only problem is that it's difficult to imagine something entirely new. We use the words and definitions of the past to shape our ideas. Something that is genuinely the next evolutionary step is unlikely to resemble anything we can imagine. Even the best books on the subject are limited." She'd
Genevieve Cogman
#31. I believe there is a hero in each of us. The best books are the ones that remind us of who we already are and empower us to embrace our own story.
Marilynn Halas
#33. In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.
Viggo Mortensen
#34. The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
Orison Swett Marden
#35. What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.
Rikki Ducornet
#36. The best books arise from some ultimate question in the author.
Isobelle Carmody
#37. THREE DAYS TO DEAD is one of the best books I've read. Ever. Evy Stone is a heroine's heroine, and I rooted for her from the moment I met her. Kelly Meding has written a phenomenal story, one that's fast-paced, gritty, and utterly addictive. Brava! More! More! More!
Jackie Morse Kessler
#38. Sometimes the best books are the ones no-one has heard of and you have to dig deep to find.
Crystal Spears
#39. Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth ...
Reginald Horace Blyth
#40. Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David Thoreau
#41. I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca. Simply put, the best books have both, and the best writers disparage neither.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
#42. Read the best books first, otherwise you'll find you do not have time.
- Henry David Thoreau
Leo Tolstoy
#43. The best books ... are those that tell you what you know already.
George Orwell
#44. An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.
John Ruskin
#45. Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message.
John Grisham
#46. The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
Judy Blume
#47. 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
#48. The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
Criss Jami
#49. The homes I like the best are totally occupied, busy, and useful, whether it's a tiny little house or a great big one. Rarely do you find a great big house that's used in a good way. So I prefer smaller spaces that are full of books, full of things that people are doing.
Martha Stewart
#52. Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction (or by my nature) I should not have loved
Milan Kundera
#53. I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.
Tana French
#54. Before you can become a writer, you have to be a reader, and a reader of everything, at that. To the best of my recollection, I became a reader at the age of 10 and have never stopped. Like many authors, I read all sorts of books all the time, and it is amazing how the mind fills up.
Terry Pratchett
#55. With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.
Tim Parks
#56. I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art and William Zinsser's On Writing Well. I read a lot of classics;
Donald Miller
#58. Like books, sports give people a sense of having lived other lives, of taking part in other people's victories. And defeats. When sports are at their best, the spirit of the fan merges with the spirit of the athlete.
Phil Knight
#59. In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.
Paul Theroux
#61. 'Books had always been my best friends and all I wanted to do was lose myself in them, and better yet if the worlds and characters were of my own making.'
Fae Sutherland
#62. People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.
Henry Rollins
#63. I strongly believe that good books are the best home accessory.
Rachel Nichols
#64. Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
William Ellery Channing
#65. Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today's children are not as patient. The best example of this is 'The Secret Garden,' which I adored as a child.
Lois Lowry
#66. From history books you should at best believe just the punctuation. The rest is uncertain, incomplete, distorted, exaggerated or even fabricated.
A.J. Beirens
#67. The library was the best place in the world.
Anita Anand
#68. The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln
#69. Books," says E. P. Whipple, "are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time." "As a rule," said Benjamin Disraeli, "the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Orison Swett Marden
#70. My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me), shopping, driving somewhere, seeing different things.
Mary Engelbreit
#71. I think goodreads is the best place to look for books
Jeff Kinney
#72. Books are the best companions as they make you sit near wisdom.
Rajesh Nanoo
#73. Your best friend is the person who not only knows all the important stories and events in your life, but has lived through them with you. Your best friend isn't the person you call when you are in jail; mostly likely, she is sitting in the cell beside you.
Irene S. Levine
#74. I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.
Flea
#75. The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.
Leo Buscaglia
#76. Children read books, not reviews," he wrote. "They don't give a hoot about the critics." And: "When a book is boring, they yawn openly, without any shame or fear of authority." Best of all - and to the relief of authors everywhere - children "don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity.
Steven D. Levitt
#77. The best sequence is this: clothes first, then books, papers, komono (miscellany), and lastly, mementos.
Marie Kondo
#78. Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.
Josephine Tey
#79. Many, if not most, of the best and most lasting children's books have multiple levels, some of which are not fully accessible to their most likely readers ... at least, not on their first read-through at age eight or ten or fifteen.
Patricia C. Wrede
#80. Ironically, white America will catapult books about race to the top of the best-seller list, even as racism remains a national open wound. Obsession ain't solution, however, because reading even at its most intense and verisimilitudinous is vicarious, and once you close the book you're off the hook.
Marita Golden
#81. This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best.
Night, sleep, and the stars.
Walt Whitman
#82. Books are the best technology.
Self
#83. The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#84. The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.
Leo Tolstoy
#85. None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback. People find them, they like them, and they pass them on.
James Purdy
#86. I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.
Mark Twain
#87. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been like that.
Walter Moers
#90. Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled This could change your life.
Helen Exley
#91. If you see the dragon fly,
best you drink the flagon dry.
- Zarost
Greg Hamerton
#92. Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.
J.C. Ryle
#93. I do not just want you at your best.
I almost do not care
where your Happiness lives,
but please,
let me visit your pain?
Take me to the place
where your sadness goes,
and show me the tragedy
that no one knows.
Meraaqi
#94. Used books, as if someone else has had the best of them and you get the sere husk, or the lees, as if a book isn't the one thing, the one product, that is forever new. There's no such thing as a used book. Or there's no such thing as a book if it's not being used.
Deborah Meyler
#95. I used to say, read as much as you can. Now I say, read the best that you can, the stories that resonate with you, the books that are important to you. Try to read, not only as a reader, but also as a writer, to deconstruct how the author is telling his or her story.
Cristina Henriquez
#96. Frozen yogurt is tastier than ice cream, nobody is too old for cartoons, bald men are sexy, chocolate is the best medicine, BIG books are better, cats secretly rule the planet, and everything should be available in the color pink, including monster trucks.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#97. I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.
Sherman Alexie
#98. Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help me take care of myself. It would remind me that cancer is doable.
Regina Brett
#99. The best book I've ever written wasn't the first...
It was the book of life.
Khali Raymond
#100. The Number One Rule of Working Is: DO THE BEST WORK YOU CAN. Why do anything but your best? What's the point?
Carew Papritz
