Quotation Explorer - 'Books'

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird. - China Miéville

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since. - G.K. Chesterton

Great books live longer than people.They are gonna bury us all. - Patricia Nedelea

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written. - Barbara Kingsolver

Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you are going to write your own books and not somebody else's. Not even those books of the somebody else you thought it was your express business to spruce yourself up to be. - Patricia Hampl

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England. - Victor Hugo

Books allowed my imagination to take flight and it hasn’t landed yet - Lynn Payne

Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows. - Friedrich Nietzsche

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved. - Ansel Adams

People think, Hey, I love kids, I want to write children’s books. But they think children are happy. That’s their first mistake. [Messinger, Jonathan. "Guilt for dinner: The interview." Hipsqueak. 5 May 2011. Web. 18 November 2011.] - Mo Willems

Sometimes the things in our heads are far worse than anything they could put in books or on film!! - C.K. Webb

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all. - Jackie Kennedy

We believed in the existence in this country of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price and staked everything on it. - Allen Lane

A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures. - Stephen King

Poetry is nothing if it exists only in books. One has to find it in one's own life. - Marty Rubin

There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers. - Sara Sheridan

We weave together the many skeins of our words,Into poems and stories and books,And the books are made so much more vivacious and colourful,For all the care that is woven in along with the words. - Bree Verity

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. - Samuel Butler

Do I get bored from books or films?No, I don't get I get bored from genre so I change it and start something new... - Deyth Banger

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. - Salman Rushdie

Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. - Bible

Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin. - David Letterman

It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice. - Kristen Lamb

It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future... - Wilferd Peterson

If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college. - R. Albert Mohler Jr.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can. - William Feather

I write books, bitch! - Junnita Jackson

I hate most people. And I don’t want to, it’s an awful way to be. But the human race gives me no comfort. I find myself turning to books and films for comfort still. It’s repulsive, because one’s life consists of people, not things. - Morrissey

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books. - Martin Luther

Friends are like books, you learn from every one of them. - Debasish Mridha

History books are being re-written all the time - Andy Warhol

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

A room without books is like a body without a soul. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

The world of books captured my heart. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble. - Peter S. Jennison

If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people’s only reason for not abandoning e-books. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don't yet know what to do with. - Alain de Botton

Clearing your head of everything you thought you knew, even your mostcherished ideas, will give you the mental space to be educated by your present experience--the best schoolof all. You will develop your own strategic muscles instead of depending on other people's theories and books. - Robert Greene

Back then I could not understand one word of what I read.Reading did, however, give me heart. Even if you cannot understand what you are reading you can get something from books. - Peter Høeg

I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like cheap mini vacations. - Michelle M. Pillow

Books can kill you, while you are reading. - Deyth Banger

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page. - Jane Hamilton

Books … they’re kind of a compulsion for me. To find a great bookstore is a great thing. - Philip Seymour Hoffman

The mere thought that she was alone and surrounded by books gave her a near-sensuous thrill. As she looked around her room, dark escaper for the slash of light near her lamp, and saw the vague outlines of her books, she asked herself 'Have I not the whole world? - Andrew Wilson

Maslow said sex is the primary need. Does that mean pornstars spend more money in books than anyone else? - Daniel Marques

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant. - Lawrence Clark Powell

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page. - Beverly Lewis

Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering. - Shannon L. Alder

The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read. - Shannon L. Alder

Reading teaches us receptivity....It teaches us to receive, in stillness and attentiveness, a voice possessed temporarily, on loan....And as we grow accustomed to receiving books in stillness and attentiveness, so we can grow to receive the world, also possessed temporarily. - Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life. - Stephen King

There are three things I love, three things I spend time with, three things I treat alike: family; friends; and books. - Ogwo David Emenike

I just met Stephen King in my dreams... I just said what I have watched and read from his books... Mainly I received a hug from him, it was like we are friends from long time. - Deyth Banger

While doing an enquiry on renowned horror author, Edgar Allen Poe I was astonished to notice how more successful his biographical books sold compared to his own books. - Chris Mentillo

Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together. - Brenda Sutton Rose

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. - Mark Twain

There is no greater companion like books. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Words are the key, the books are the door. - Velin

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic. - Carl Sagan

Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery. - Joe Haldeman

Read the great books, gentlemen, Mr. Monte said one day. Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There’s not enough time. - Pat Conroy

Books contain nothing, or almost nothing, that's important: everything is in the mind of the person reading them.'If you were trying to find an idiotic remark, that one took the cake! - Jacques Poulin

The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books. - Vladimir Nabokov

I love to go the library to borrow books. But I also enjoyed buying books to create my sacred library. - Lailah Gifty Akita

By reading books, you lose your old self and you find your new self! To read is to travel from self to another self! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Books and spiritual blessings are the greatest soul food - Lailah Gifty Akita

To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. - Claude Adrien Helvétius

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. - Malcolm X

Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most. - Richard P. Denney

Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That's my main concern, and always will be. - George R.R. Martin

Only the nonreader fears books. - Richard Peck

Books understand me, but humans don't understand me. They are bad friends books are forever as well as computer's and Tv and everything else which doesn't have soul. Although that dogs and cats and many other animals are quite interesting friends. - Deyth Banger

SCRIPTURES, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. - Ambrose Bierce

A life without books is like body without a soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita

You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one. - Jayce O'Neal

Kid's books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standard than other literature for the same reason that we take extra care with children's food. - Patrick Rothfuss

If books are not good company, where shall I find it? - Mark Twain

Her grandfather's books [...] opened before Ada, a world whose colours were so dazzling that reality paled in comparison and faded away. Boris Godunov, Satan, Athalia, King Lear: they all spoke words charged with meaning; every syllable was inexpressively precious - Irène Némirovsky

Writing is like baking cupcakes, you're trying to make something from the raw. Like with cupcakes it's flour and eggs and stuff, and with books it's ideas and words. The end result is the same though, you want people to eat them up. - Emma Shortt

Books appear to be frail and disposable, but they are sacred. You can burn the paper, but the stories live on. In the same way, a poor man or woman is not a burden on society, they are those who survive despite the odds—and when they don’t, they still represent those who tried. - Mohammad Zayer

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books. - Voltaire

People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii) - Robert Harris

The treasures in my house are books. - Lailah Gifty Akita

It is wise to read some books, and wise to throw away some. - Matshona Dhliwayo

I Respect A Man Who Reads More Books Than I Do In A Day. - Godfrey Orateng

A world without books would be a world not worth living in. - Eugenia Argerami

You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world. - Ray Bradbury

Which is my favourite author??You have mistake it must be authors I have a lot of favourite authors, which is my book, opps again a mistake, it must be books... - Deyth Banger

For books are more than books, they are the lifeThe very heart and core of ages past,The reason why men lived and worked and died,The essence and quintessence of their lives. - Amy Lowell

Books seem the most potent source: each one is the sum total of a life that can be inhaled in a single day. I read fast, so I'm hoovering up lives at a ferocious pace, six or seven or eight in a week. I particularly love autobiographies: I can eat a whole person by sundown. - Caitlin Moran

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings. - W.E.B. Du Bois

I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. ― - Eudora Welty

Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience. - C.S. Lewis

I couldn't believe it had taken me all these years to see this side of him. He tucked himself inside a shell, shutting himself away from others here because the palace had trapped him. Behind the books and the snippy remarks there was a curious, engaging, and sometimes very charming person. - Keira Cass

As with companions so with books. We may choose those which will make us better, more intelligent, more appreciative of the good and the beautiful in the world, or we may choose the trashy, the vulgar, the obscene, which will make us feel as though we've been 'wallowing in the mire. - David O. McKay

Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace. - Roberto Bolaño

In books I meet the dead as if they were alive,in books I see what is yet to come...All things decay and pass with time...all fame would fall victim to oblivionif God had not given mortal men the book to aid them. - Richard de Bury

Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. - Ray Bradbury

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present. - Ross Macdonald

Books have always been among my most trusted of friends, Mr. Linden replied. The best of them allow the mind to wander wherever the author's musings lead. - Walter Dean Myers

The multitude of books is making us ignorant. - Voltaire

Reincarnation is when I tell a girl I write spiritual books and she thinks I'm a monk. She has a medieval soul. - Daniel Marques

The things that change your life are: the people you meet, the classes you take, and the books you read. - Jim Rohn

It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there. - William Golding

I am obsessed with good buying books - Lailah Gifty Akita

One of the things I love about labeling myself as an author is that I can read books and call it "researching writing styles."-- - Mike Mankoff

I don't trust people without books or questions. - Darnell Lamont Walker

[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers. - Judy Blume

I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself. - Tommy Lee

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends—always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that. - J. Donald Adams

The day when on the cover of my books, my name will appear in bigger fond than the title of my book- I will stop writing because that would be the death of the writer in me. - Kirtida Gautam

Books are just old friends waiting to be discovered. - Carmela Dutra

You make me love books and the words inside them, because they talk about you. I know they do, they tell me that I love you, not as cliché as I write it, but in the warmest, deepest, calmest words I could ever read. I love you, like the books say it. And I'll find a better way to say it one day. - Nema Al-Araby

True writers have a lot more invested in the way they've written their books than in what those books happen to be about. - Po Bronson

For some reason, when people meet me and find out I'm a writer they always ask if I write children's books. Um... please don't let your kids read my books. Well, unless your kids are in their 30s or something...then yeah, they're old enough. LOL - Michelle M. Pillow

Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print. - Barbara W. Tuchman

Horror. I can't manage it. I become--well--horrified. Self-help books have a similar effect. When asked, "Any literary genre you simply can't be bothered with?" - (By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from the NYT Book Review, by Pamela Paul) - Emma Thompson

Books are another kind of magic. - G. Lyness

Novels are readOr their authors are blue.Support Indie writers:Buy their books, post reviews! - Cheri Gillard

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

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. - Stephen Fry

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. - Theodore Parker

And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive. - George Orwell

Hearts are like Books. You cannot understand one by flipping the pages or by reading the last chapter - Alok Jagawat

Books may be the most valuable treasure of knowledge, but it is the human mind, that turns that knowledge into wisdom. - Abhijit Naskar

Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist. - Adam Gopnik

Books give knowledge. Mistakes gives experience. - Jury Nel

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice - Howell James

Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY) - John Clute

He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea - for the cool interior of the well-built house, and for the never-ending wonders of the many books. - Edgar Rice Burroughs

Books may well be the only true magic. - Alice Hoffman

I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on. - Kurt Vonnegut

Books, I found, had the power to make timestand still, retreat or fly into the future. - Jim Bishop

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them. - L.M. Montgomery

When I was very young, before I could read, I remember being very interested in comic books. - Nathan Fillion

Since when did books ever solve anything? They only raise more questions than they answer, otherwise they’re just fucking entertainment, and I am not here to fucking entertain you. - Zia Haider Rahman

The spirits of the brain are directly connected to the testicles. This is why men who weary their imagination in books are less suitable for procreative functions... - Louis de la Forge

Books end. Stories never do. - Marty Rubin

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries. - René Descartes

When I am dead, I hope it may be said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. - Hilaire Belloc

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. - Elbert Hubbard

I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them. - Hugo Chávez

If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies — Tolkien didn’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies, he read books on Finnish philology. Go and read outside of your comfort zone, go and learn stuff. - Neil Gaiman

When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books. - Kathleen Norris

I have tread all three of his books and they held me spellbound interesting story. Its fiction based on fact...mmm I like! - Harold Alvin

Should books not have been there, hearsay would have been the best reading material! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter. - Paxton Hood

Books are the way the dead talk to the living. - Laurie Anderson

From ... the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. ... I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books. - George Orwell

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read."[As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)] - George Bernard Shaw

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win. - Christopher Morley

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. - Horace

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I’ve been swindled all the same because it’s never anything more. - Simone de Beauvoir

Perspective was my secret weapon, and books gave me plenty of ammunition. - Ian McNulty

I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please. - Michel de Montaigne

Books are keys that open many doors. - James Rollins

There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all. - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. - Frances Hodgson Burnett

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can. - Jane Hamilton

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. - Anthony Powell

that the grace of fable stirs the mind"...and..."that the perusal of excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages - René Descartes

Things to know from books to read - Kip Koehler

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world! - Neil Gaiman

Every child deserves to be a boat cast out in a sea of books. - K. Lamb

we became the books we read. - Matthew Kelly

Without reading many different books, you can never leave the port of ignorance and can never obtain the peaceful mind of knowing the truth! - Mehmet Murat ildan

I know the mind of ancient souls by reading ancient books. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Without story books is like a person with no soul. - Stephen King

I wonder whether, perhaps without realizing it, we seek out the books we need to read. Or whether books themselves, which are intelligent entities, detect their readers and catch their eye. In the end, every book is the I Ching. You pick it up, open it, and there it is, there you are. - Andrés Neuman

A mind possessed by unmade books, unwritten lines on empty hooks. - Michael Faudet

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire. - Sara Sheridan

The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading. - Edith Wharton

There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer. - Pete Hamill

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles William Eliot

To be a prosperous pastor one needs: (1) a bible (2) a tailored suit; and (3) a few psychology books. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. - Abraham Lincoln

The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books. - Stéphane Mallarmé

Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun - Saul Williams

I followed her into the library. The pale light from our chamber below dissipated in the room, but I could still make out – my heart leapt at the sight – row after row, shelf above shelf, floor to ceiling, a city of books. Speck turned to me and asked, Now, what shall we read first? - Keith Donohue

Reese, your books might not tell you this, so I will. Every heart has two parts, the part that pumps and the part that loves. If you’re going to spend your life fixing broken hearts, then learn about both. You can’t just fix one with no concern for the other. - Charles Martin

I think I'm going through a bit of ADD. I'm reading 3 books simultaneously and it's something that I don't recommend. It's like watching TV with two others who keep changing the channels... - S.J. Romero

It’s a bizarre act of self-mutilation to say that ‘I don’t get on with science fiction and fantasy, therefore I’m never going to read any’. What a shame. All those great books that you’re cutting yourself off from. - David Mitchell

Books are humanity in print. - Barbara W. Tuchman

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. - Oprah Winfrey

Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body - Ecclesiastes 12 12

Like Desserts, books come in all kinds of tasty treats! - Carmela Dutra

I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children . . . do not discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do not like is the gateway drug to other books you may prefer. - Neil Gaiman

Books fall open, you fall in - David T.W. McCord

There's no such thing as 'no market'. Some books are just niche orientated that's all. - Jo Linsdell

The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Parents often ask - how do I get my child interested in books and reading? One tried and true way that my late husband and I used was paying them to read. For each book that my sons read, we paid them $1. They soon developed a love for reading and forgot all about the money. Amazing but true! - Soraya Diase Coffelt

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. - C.S. Lewis

For me, reading is so much more. Books teach you how other people think, and what they're feeling, and how they change from ordinary beings to extraordinary ones. Often they are so appealing and intelligent, you'd rather spend time reading about them than doing anything else. - Jennifer Kaufman

Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS) - Jeanette Winterson

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. - Lord Chesterfield

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered. - Scott Westerfeld

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. - Ross Macdonald

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity - George Steiner

I spend many hours in conversation with wonderful characters from fantastic books. - Patti Roberts

The world is small. Books make it bigger. - Jerry J.C. Veit

A tried and true way to get your children interested in books and reading is to read to them when they are young. - Soraya Diase Coffelt

some of the first words a child learns are brand names, because they don’t have to sound them out. It becomes part of your environmental vocabulary [Whitney Curry Wimbish & , "The Binary Companion," LA Review of Books, January 22, 2015]. - Sarah Gerard

There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over. - Margaret Peterson Haddix

Read enough books to build your sacred soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Books open a realm to a world beyond our own, all one has to do is take a leap of faith, open one, and step through the gate, passed the veil of myth on into the unknown. - Sophia Compian

Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them. - Annie Dillard

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive. - James Baldwin

You must go to the school or to the books or on the field because knowledge doesn't come to you, you must go to the knowledge. - Amit Kalantri

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women. - Malala Yousafzai

We spend great sum of money to buy good books, so that we can satisfy our pleasure of reading. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The more books you read, the less topics you have in common with most of the people, that´s the price you pay for reading. - Martina Tutková

...because there's a secret order. The books, you can't place them random. The other day I put Cervantes next to Tolstoj.And I thought, if close to Anna Karenina we have Don Quixote, sure the latter will do his best to save her. - Ettore Scola

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become. - Ursula K. Le Guin

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. - Hermann Hesse

Ambling Indian nuggets of wisdom A lover of books can never be lonely! - Aina Rao

The burning lamp is found in reading books. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books - China Miéville

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. - Samuel Butler

Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble. - William Drummond

We do not belong to those who have ideas only among books, when stimulated by books. It is our habit to think outdoors - walking, leaping, climbing, dancing, preferably on lonely mountains or near the sea where even the trails become thoughtful. - Nietzsche

Books are like plants. They're decorations that are alive. - Katy Lee

She reads a lot of books. Good things, books. - Thorne Smith

Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You know how dey say some people devour books? Not in da way ME do! Me REALLY devour books! - Mike Pantuso

I am forever an advocate of books, both the reading of them and the writing. There is something sacred to me in that community. Because writing--and reading--is a solitary business. And it’s good to know I’m not alone. - Shannon Celebi

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. - Barbara W. Tuchman

He said that the principal function of music was to organize the details into harmonies that were intended to make us forget that there was randomness all around us. The same, he said, could be said for great books. - Selden Edwards

Of course, a single verse of the Holy Qur'an or a hadith moves the faithful to good actions, but volumes of books would not move an unwilling person who is like an ass carrying a load of books. - Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhalvi

Books tell you more about their owners than the owners do. - A.M. Homes

By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream - Virginia Woolf

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. - Christopher Marlowe

The books we read in childhood don't exist anymore; they sailed off with the wind, leaving bare skeletons behind. Whoever still has in him the memory and marrow of childhood should rewrite these books as he experienced them. - Bruno Schulz

Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people - Heinrich Heine

I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of books most people read. Once you see that you lose all hope. - Friedrich Hayek

Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think. - Douglas Rushkoff

Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books. - Shannon L. Alder

God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. - w.e. channing

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books. - Karl Lagerfeld

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul." - Paxton Hood

The reading of great books awaken and brightens the light of my soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I am not a Books warm, but I like Books too much. - Aqeel Rafique

My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour. - Jazz Feylynn

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness. - Kate DiCamillo

I hunger for books, I search for knowledge. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Well there's these things called books.... They are like TV for smart people. - Robert Redford

Honestly, I hate when in books, the guys changes the girl's life. Like, no. The girl needs to change her own life. - Sasha Alsberg

Being in your head is when you analyze, control and overthink. Run on thoughts, worry, talking but not listening, taking all the workshops and reading all the books, but not experiencing it's message. - Eileen Anglin

Want some books? - John Chord Jr.

So many books, I'm about to have a heart attack! - Mekiah Johnson

The answer of understanding more books... is reading more. That's the answer or read more creepypasta or listen to creepypasta. - Deyth Banger

This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives; the one we live on Earth and the one we live in our books. - Chrys Fey

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

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know. - Don DeLillo

No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lyingas in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men. - Thomas Carlyle

If you close your door to the world of books, the gates of the world of ignorance automatically opens and quickly pulls you inside! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected. - C.J. Langenhoven

says Semtex goes BOOM! Handle his books with care. - Jimmy Boom Semtex

True dexterity is not just in books; It is giving from above, we learn it, it is nurtured, it is applied and it is developed. He who do not know what has been giving to him from above shall never know how to use what he has been giving efficiently and effectively - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are. - Laura Kreitzer

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

You read enough books in which people like you are disposable, or are dirt, or are silent, absent, or worthless, and it makes an impact on you. Because art makes the world, because it matters, because it makes us. Or breaks us. - Rebecca Solnit

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other. - Kamand Kojouri

My plan is to continue teaching many more years than the 32 years I've already enjoyed and continue writing, and promoting my books and websites if it's God will. - Ana Monnar

The problem with being an author in this modern world is such: computers break often; books don't - Emma Iadanza

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer) - Arthur Schopenhauer

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

When I die I hope it may be said:'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'. - Shannon L. Alder

I love to read books. I love to read anything really, even the back of the cereal box.But there is nothing that will ignite your soul like reading God’s Word. - Rachel Wojnarowski

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. - Herman Melville

However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book? - Saadi سعدی

To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. - Sir William Osler

Everyone writes the book he or she loves to read. Great authors write the books others love to read. - Chuck Miceli

Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality. - Iris Chang

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness. - Francis Quarles

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. - Charles Lamb

People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book. - Deyth Banger

Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author. - James Jeffrey Roche

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part. - Voltaire

Renew your mind more often by reading variety of books - Lailah Gifty Akita

You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read until the cover fell off, the book you read hidden from your mother. What an honor to hold hands with a child's imagination in this way. - Meg Medina

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures. - George W. Bush

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power. - James Howe

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. - Edward Abbey

Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed? - Shannon L. Alder

Books are for nothing but to inspire - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. - Joseph Joubert

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me. - Margaret Peterson Haddix

Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt....but do read... - Rabindranath Tagore

A legacy is not what is recorded in history books or repeated in song, but what is woven into the souls of those who remain.(from The General's Legacy) - Adrian G. Hilder

Books open the doors that others have closed on you. - Shannon L. Alder

Rewriting is the crucible where books are born. - Cathryn Louis

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this. - Dave Eggers

As an author, I want to write what I’m inspired to write. Not what my readers want me to write. I feel like the books will ultimately be better if my heart is fully into what I’m writing. - Colleen Hoover

Comme l'on serait savant si l'on connaissait bien seulement cinq à six livres. ( How wise one might be if one knew thoroughly only some half of a dozen books - Gustave Flaubert

America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.

The true university of these days is a collection of books. - Thomas Carlyle

Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me. - Anatole France

Education is the process of selling someone on books. - Douglas Wilson

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world. - E.B. White

Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in. - Lev Grossman

My books are friends that never fail me."(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817) - Thomas Carlyle

Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. - William Shakespeare

Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one - Jo Linsdell

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else. - John Waters

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books. - Jorge Luis Borges

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. - Paul Valery

So many books, so little time. - Frank Zappa

We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual reality. - M.R. Mathias

I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough books. Probably both. - Zoë Marriott

We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.[Inside Out (VH1)] - Warren Zevon

There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books. - James Patterson

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air. - Sholem Asch

Do not buy finery or jewels, because books are worth more than they are. Adorn your understanding with their precious ideas, because there is no luxury that dazzles like the luxury of science. - Luisa Capetillo

BIG books are better. There, I said it and it's true. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Of all things, I liked books best. - Nikola Tesla

Books are people,'' smiled Miss Marks. ''In every book worth reading, the author is there to meet you, to establish contact with you. He takes you into his confidence and reveals his thoughts to you. - D.E. Stevenson

All I needed to know, all true knowledge, the only really essential knowledge, was to be found in the books I read and the music I listened to - Karl Ove Knausgård

Books are readable drugs. - Carla H. Krueger

The love I knew was from books.. - Pramoedya Ananta Toer

The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about. - G. Willow Wilson

Books don't need batteries. - Nadine Gordimer

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth. - Wole Soyinks

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books."[Proposition touching Amendment of Laws] - Francis Bacon

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. - Franz Kafka

I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books. - Louisa May Alcott

I love digging myself into books because the moment I'm drifted from reality, I'm in a different world and I'm a different person. - Nathalie M. Llanto

When I didn't have friends, I had books. - Oprah Winfrey

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you. - Ernest Hemingway

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt. - Lauren Willig

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. - R.L. Stine

I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. - Edward Gibbon

The day when on the cover of my books, my name will appear in bigger font than the title of my book- I will stop writing because that would be the death of the writer in me. - Kirtida Gautam

It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved by anyone again. - Will Harondale, Clockwork Prince

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy. - Augustine Birrell

Life without Music would be a Mistake. Life without Books would be Catastrophic! - Nandini Deka

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. - Heinrich Heine

Prepare yourself for some bad news: Ronald Reagan’s library just burned down. Both books were destroyed. But the real horror: He hadn’t finished coloring either one of them. - Gore Vidal

Books are an extension of our imagination - Danny Saunders

Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written. - John 21:25- Holy Bible

The crime series, books and other types of works have in one in mind... and that's learning. - Deyth Banger

Of course I loved books more than people. - Diana Setterfield

Books are meat and medicineand flame and flight and flowersteel, stitch, cloud and clout,and drumbeats on the air. - Gwendolyn Brooks

Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space. - John Derbyshire

We know nothing about motivation. All we can of is write books about it. - Peter Drucker

Fiction books give the reader a chance to step away from their own reality and into the shoes of the characters, and they show you a world that isn't the one you already know. And sometimes the story's not so different from your own, and it lets you get closer to your own feelings. - Shin Towada

I have travel to sacred places through the pages of books. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I wonder how many books you have read? - Lailah Gifty Akita

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain. - Gabriel García Márquez

Cats and books are my universe. Both are infinitely fascinating and full of mystery. - Rai Aren

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage. - Roald Dahl

Homer begged and Rembrandt went bankrupt. Aristotle, who had money for books, his school, and his museum, could not have bought this painting of himself.Rembrandt could not afford a Rembrandt. - Joseph Heller

All of my chupacabra books are like novelizations of movies that haven’t been made yet. - Raegan Butcher

I don't believe in ONE holy book. I believe all books are holy. Of course, some books are holy shit. - John Raptor

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? - Karl Kraus

Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint. - Markus Herz

Books are my greatest treasures. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Life doesn't change when you meet a guy and life doesn't fall apart when you break up with one. We are teaching young female readers the wrong things through books not only expressing this point, but also using these two concepts as turning plot points of novels. - Meghan Blistinsky

You can cover a great deal of country in books. - Andrew Lang

True dexterity is not just in books; It is giving from above, we learn it, it is nurtured, it is applied and it is developed. He who does not know what has been giving to him from above, shall never know how to use what he has been giving effectively and efficiently - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When books are burned in the end people will be burned too. - Heinrich Heine

i live on my books. on my writings, i live on my royalties: the percentage an author recieves on each sold copy. and i am proud of it. i am so even though such percentage is small or i should say irrelevant. - Oriana Fallaci

I like two types of dust: pixie dust and dust from old, first edition books. - Nicholaa Spencer

Is anything illegal here?' Addison asked.'Library late fines are stiff. Ten lashes a day, and that's just for paperbacks.'There's a library?''Two. Though one won't lend because all the books are bound in human skin and quite valuable. - Ransom Riggs

Ιη m¥ books, ł'm †ђ3 best; I just need some time тσ prove it ιη ¥øûЯ history books. - Ufuoma Apoki

Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble. - Sara Sheridan

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. - Joseph Addison

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. - Arthur Conan Doyle

Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity. - Spanish Proverb

I want to board a train, and leave my books behind. I want to be so caught up in writing about the journey, that I forget that fiction & fact are not the same. The destination does not signify. - Hannah Harding

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library. - John Waters

Sad that there is books that are based on bad events that has happened. But there is books that has been based on really good events. I like to read the ones that are based on both. - Dawn Huntsman

May I have a few friends and many books - both true. - A. Cowley

My morning rambles through the park will never make the history books. - Marty Rubin

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. - Carl Sagan

Sleep is good, he said, and books are better. - George R.R. Martin

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em! - John Waters

If books are your good friends, then a conscious life will be your best comrade all your life! - Mehmet Murat ildan

When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer. - Roberto Bolaño

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. - Oscar Wilde

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases. - Kurt Vonnegut

We can tell a lot about a woman from her books. - Director Phil Coulson

I love books. I love that moment when you can open one and sink into it. You can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting than yours will ever be. - Elizabeth Scott

Books deliver information so that experience has a chance to exercise creativity. - Richard Diaz

Because What we Learn from our Favorite Books, you see in our daily Lives.--- - JennAnijah Publishing

Reading books would be boring if you lack imagination... - Himmilicious

An extrovert looks at a stack of books and sees a stack of papers, while an introvert looks at the same stack and sees a soothing source of escape. - Eric Samuel Timm

My goal is to read as much as possible books, my dream is to meet the snow person, the storm person and to make something together. I will be the rain, Snowy will be the snow, Stormy will be the storm - it's not so complicated as far I see. - Deyth Banger

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet. - Jack Canfield

Books aren't just booksthey're a completely different worldin the palm of your hands - Charlotte

Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread. - Henry Stevens

There is enough knowledge in the books to explain the existing, your knowledge must inspire what is possible. - Amit Kalantri

You are the author of your own destiny; write yourself into history books. - Matshona Dhliwayo

People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had," she said quietly, staring into the embers. "They don't know what it was like, not being in a camp. - Nevil Shute

Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world's friend. - Michael Bassey Johnson

When you speak, your words echo across the room. When you write, your words echo across the ages" Bud GardnerThis is what my books do about stories of the Past, Present and Futur. Enjoy!Visit my page on Amazon.com - Claire Hamelin Manning

Readers are the glue that binds the books together. - J.E.B. Spredemann

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. - William Shakespeare

Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights - Ephrem the Syrian

Books are the salt of life; without them, there is no flavor. - Cheryl Koevoet

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books. - Andrei Tarkovsky

In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian crime novels fingerprinting has to be explained because it's new. Nowadays it's part of our world and we can simply assume that knowledge if we write about it. - Sara Sheridan

The thing about books was, the more you read and liked them, the more you wanted to have on hand to read. Before you knew it you needed more bookshelves, and then all of the sudden they filled your house. - Sui Ishida

We become the books we read. - Matthew Kelly

A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2) - William Shakespeare

Children’s and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we get. I think that’s why so many adults read YA: we’re never done coming of age. - Betsy Cornwell

I'll have enough books when they fill my room like the stars fill the sky. - E.V. Fairfall

Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock.... - Philip Larkin

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book. - J.K. Rowling

You can never, never have too many books - Drew Barrymore

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice. - John Lothrop Motley

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. - Eudora Welty

No other work of man in any language even faintly resembles the intricate structure and design of the Bible. The fact remains – only an infinite mind could have devised this Book of books. - Winkie Pratney

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. - Henry David Thoreau

To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.I’d never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people. - C.S. Lewis

I live for books. - Thomas Jefferson

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books. - Samuel Butler

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. - Walt Whitman

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever. - J.K. Rowling

I am a passionate reader.New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Readers often tell me after they've read the books, they find it difficult to sum up the plot in a simple way. My response is, "It's a story about the love a father shares for his daughter. All the rest is just filler."- MJ Mancini, on his best-selling trilogy, "Revelation". - M.J. Mancini

If your best friends do not read books, they read you. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life. - Walt Disney Company

One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn't read all the good books in this lifetime. - Amit Kalantri

While you can't hold on to everything forever, you're a fool if you sell back your college books at semester's end: have you learned nothing of this life? - Ander Monson

It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So the more I can be, the better the books will be. - Jeanette Winterson

Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I ­always have to feel that I'm bunking off from something. - Geoff Dyer

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house. - Beverly Cleary

As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves! - Jan Karon

Read books and be happy. - Vanessa Dela Cruz

A life without books is empty. - Lailah Gifty Akita

...he spent whole days and nights over his books; and thus with little sleeping and much reading his brains dried up to such a degree that he lost the use of his reason. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Measure of success isn't money or the number of books you write, it is seen in the faces of those you love - Jason W. Blair

He fed his spirit with the bread of books - Edwin Markham

Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more. - Brandi L. Bates

All great writers share one thing in common:They finished their books. - M. Kirin

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. - Thomas Carlyle

I even love the smell of books. - Adriana Trigiani

It has never been easier to get books but never harder to find the quiet needed to study them. - John Mark Reynolds

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.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things. - Lawrence Clark Powell

I feel sorry for people who say they cannot read big books. - Anonymous

The brain is like a muscle; books are the diet and writing is the workout. - Stewart Stafford

It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is an entirely different kind of remarkable. - Brandt Legg

USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion. - Ambrose Bierce

I don't need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I'm there. - Lori Lesko

I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does. - Douglas Coupland

I realized that I read books not because of the words used but because of the familiar feelings these words help me express. - krisangelagb

I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this is not my purpose. - Santosh Kalwar

We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books. - Sara Sheridan

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them. - Mark Twain

The greatest treasures are books. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books. - Nancy Etchemendy

That's what this country needs -- more books! - Christopher Morley

I just read few books, and this books made a magic in my life. - Deyth Banger

In the books, I meet characters which I really like and I think that they are like me... but so far I haven't met them in real life! - Deyth Banger

I couldn't suppress a smile. It was inconceivable that I was here, in a place as extraordinary as the fantasy books Sophie loved. Maybe...just maybe those stories are based on a measure of truth. Maybe one day I'd write our story. - Heather L. L. FitzGerald

That is what a book does. It introduces us to people and places we wouldn't ordinarily know. A good book is a magic gateway into a wider world of wonder, beauty, delight, and adventure. Books are experiences that make us grow, that add something to our inner stature. - Gladys M. Hunt

All I have learned, I learned from books. - Abraham Lincoln

Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Imagine if you could dream about your books, read them in your dreams and learn them. You will never need to study in your life again. Just sleep. - Andreas Harpas

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. - Franz Kafka

A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy. - Astrid Lindgren

If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe. - Werner Herzog

Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit. - Oliver Gaspirtz

Books are a finer world within the world. (1863) - Alexander Smith

Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books. - Ellen Hopkins

Good books do not waste our time as most people do... collect a great quantity of books, build alibrary worthy of your noble soul, andspend without stint all the money necessary for it. - Cardinal Augustin Valier

When the mind stops searching, when it stops wanting refuge, when it no longer goes in search of security, when it no longer craves more books and information, when it ignores even the memory of desire, only then will Love arrive within. - Samael Aun Weor

Books signify the mind of many souls. - Lailah Gifty Akita

These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs. - Anton Chekhov

I would actually write books totally full of nothing BUT kissing scenes, but apparently people like books to have, like, "plots" or whatever. - Rachel Hawkins

If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen. - Michael Bassey Johnson

I cannot live without books. - Thomas Jefferson

I always find that after reading books written by Jane Austen that I speak much more properly, at least for a while. - Becky Watson

I most likely like books which are out of my language... English... for example is a great example - Not my native language, but I enjoy the covers and how the words sound. - Deyth Banger

Friends might share clothes and chocolate, but they must share books. Just like you share the same stars, share the same books and you'll never be apart. - Toni Sorenson

Life without books, chocolate & coffee is just useless. - Nadun Lokuliyanage

Books are a staircase to unknown worlds. - Jason Ellis

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

It is there, where they burn books, that eventually they burn people. - Heinrich Heine

I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end. - Eudora Welty

I write because I know I am only one to control the world I created in my books. - Anamika Mishra

I write because in my books, I can experience those (mad and crazy) things that I won't be able to do in my real life - Anamika Mishra

when the press and problems of humanity become too much, I love to escape into books, where people are served up in digestible portions and can be pushed to one side when one is satiated. - Jane Wilson-Howarth

The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals. - Charles C. Ryrie

You could say we run a dating service. If you with some books that will take you on a date you will never forget. - Love The Stacks Bookstore

Books and school are great for learning but there is no substitute for life and living to provide a real education. - Ken Poirot

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree? - Christopher Paolini

Libraries are more than just a storage place for books, they are treasure troves filled with creativity and knowledge. And that knowledge can be empowering. - R.L. Hemlock

Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old. - C.S. Lewis

I am not a fan of the magical quick fix in any fiction, including fantasy, scifi and comic books. Unless Dr. Who is involved, and then only because we get to use the phrase 'Timey-wimey wibbliness' which, I'm sure you'll agree, there are not enough occasions to drop into ordinary adult conversation. - Chris Dee

If your best friends do not read books, they reads you. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Books are lasting longer than (built) architecture. Most of my important projects may never be built, so buildings are important, artifacts are important, but so are books - Peter Eisenmann

Look upon good books; they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself...and you shall need no other comfort nor counsel. - Francis Bacon

I think falling in love is like discovering the magic of books. You think to yourself, 'how was I living before this? - Kamand Kojouri

If you are talking about beauty, books are cheaper than cosmetics. - Svaradiva

Quran‬, ‪Bible‬, ‪BhagwadGita‬ are your (as an follower's) way of life and not every-ones way of life, so don't force people to change. These Holy books teach you to change yourself (for good) and not others. - honeya

The 'Big Bang' idea of pseudo armchair pundits, too is as much a theory as a human-like big buffoon, that your so-called 'holy' books call god. - Fakeer Ishavardas

My next option is to only write a list of the books I like, but then again, I don’t read a book I don’t like so it doesn’t solve any of my problems. - Genesis Quihuis

You are the same today that you are going to be five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read. - Charles Jones

People who know and love the same books you do have the roadmap of your soul. I believe that. - Cassandra Clare

So here I am with this double life, one where my grammatically incorrect writing is a nice success with tens of thousands of readers, and another one where my carefully written books are read by a dozen people. - Christian A. Dumais

I never make up anything. I get everything from my books. They're all true!" --Ann Newton/Shadow of a Doubt (1943) - rebecca hitchcock

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. - Michel de Montaigne

Passion for books is pleasurable. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Always buy pornographic books in hardback because they're easier to hold with one hand. - Robert Clark

It began to falter not when the book publishers who loved books gave way to those who preferred profits to reading. It happened when publishers and editors cut back on their drinking. If there is one national flower in book publishing, it is the martini. - Al Silverman

You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. - Maurice Sendak

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do. - Gertrude Stein

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986] - Jorge Luis Borges

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. - Albert Einstein

The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality. - Thomas Mann

Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many. - Randy Pausch

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions. - Christopher Henry Dawson

I believe books are life's best gifts, as they allow us to venture into worlds we never thought existed. Giving us a chance to be someone different, giving us the chance to dawdle in the words - And feel free! - Anonymous

Spirituality is for people. It’s not just for those who you might have read about in books, it’s for people. - Belsebuub

Quran‬, ‪Bible‬, ‪BhagwadGita‬ are your (as an follower) way of life and not everyone's way of life, so don't force people to change. These Holy books teach you to change yourself (for good) and not others. - honeya

I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job. - Sara Sheridan

Books to the ceiling,Books to the sky,My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them! How I need them!I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. - Arnold Lobel

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel. - Mark Twain

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women. - Booker T. Washington

Some books are so beautiful and intriguing that you never want to put them down, forever leaving you in anticipation to read the next page.Some people are the same way. - Katie Douglas

All of the the books, the readings, the workshops, the ah-ha moments won't change your life unless you put actions behind them. - Eileen Anglin

The books you read in childhood shape the person you become. - Paula Berinstein

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

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive. - James Baldwin

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts. - Rene Descartes

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Buy books. Unlike high calorie food, they don't give heart attacks. - Tanushree Podder

Another silence for the record books. Then he sighs."I know. It's crazy. I feel like --" He stops himself. He suddenly looks so miserable that my heart aches for him.I hate my life. - Cynthia Hand

Reading books is like wearing winter clothes; it covers and warms up the body of your naked soul. - Munia Khan

Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. - William Shakespeare

Give up your holy books, and remember the Lord, you fool, and stop oppressing others so badly. - Bhagat Kabir

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing. - Robert G. Ingersoll

My only wish is to be buried with my books. - Nikita Dudani

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. - Emma Thompson

Religious people never believe I write books. Someone should tell them books aren't only produced in monasteries anymore. - Daniel Marques

Good books makes good life.Great books makes great life. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. - John Burroughs

The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day, whereas only three or four books in a lifetime give us anything that is of real importance. - Marcel Proust

Apparently Lord Wyndham did regularly donate books to various museums around London. They were usually ones which he had collected earlier, but which were no longer of interest to him or his associates. Irene twitched at the very notion. Give books away? How very frivolous, she finally said. - Genevieve Cogman

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films. - Iain M. Banks

Without reserve, I can say that my entire identity is in the books I write. - Elena Ferrante

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. - Edwin Percy Whipple

I spent all the money I had, to get the sacred books of my life. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I won't lie!Probably from books you have saw that I'm not good at English, probably because I don't live in such country which this language is important or let's say to be native. But as for now I can't do a lot of for that! - Deyth Banger

There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others… - Chris Geiger

Books are not distractions. Rather, they are, and have been, the most profound and accurate mirrors man has ever crafted. - RJ Arkhipov

Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it. - Josh Lieb

The greatest possessions I leave for my children are books. - Lailah Gifty Akita

She reads books as one would breathe air,to fill up and live. - Anne Dillard

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. - Oscar Wilde

Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men. - Neil Gaiman

Read enough books. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper. - Amit Kalantri

We read books. They make us think. It matters very little whether we agree with the books or not. - Robert Henri

Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight. - Stephen Chbosky

There are good books which are only for adults.There are no good books which are only for children. - W.H. Auden

1484Hi Goodreads. My first day. I read all of the time but I must promote my own 2 books - Vulnerabilia and Legacy.VULNERABILIA - James Dalton

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. - Samuel Butler

Reading books is like your own emotional and wishful life that you could see yourself living. - Sarah Johnson

How do you choose your books?' my friends had asked. Less than a week into my project, I can now tell them the beginning of the truth. I don't always choose the books, I'll say. Sometimes the books choose me. - Sara Nelson

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads. - Sherman Alexie

People are like books. Eventually, the focus shifts from the cover to the story that cannot be read in one sitting. - Kat Lehmann

The ABC's success by Bob Proctor is one powerful book, such books are rare. Even sometimes it's hard to find a book which is based on somebody's experience... fantasy??For god sake, one drop truth which is about from 10% up to 20% and the other from 80% up to 90% it's a lie. - Deyth Banger

Books allow one to jump into another person's imagination while also exploring their own! - Jen Selinsky

Books had taught me new ideas and had shown me ways of life that I would not have known about otherwise, and they offered a refuge when, like now, real life seemed too hard. - Peg Kehert

Like some wondrous birds out of fairy tales, books sang their songs to me and spoke to me as though communing with one languishing in prison; they sang of the variety and richness of life, of man’s audacity in his strivings towards goodness and beauty. - Maxim Gorky

For my success I am immensely grateful to God, my parents, my family, my friends, my teachers and to the books I read. - Amit Kalantri

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. - John Keats

Books are the mirror of the soul ; the more you read the more you appear. - Osunsakin Adewale

All books are either dreams or swords. - Amy Lowell

Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them. - Tara Bray Smith

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. - Mark Twain

I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from. - Lawrence Wright

Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored - Vikram Seth

The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library. - Michel Foucault

Books, films should be based on specific people... people which are rare and by it's own way pretty mystery as characters. - Deyth Banger

Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence. - Fay Weldon

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth. - Dr. Seuss

Set off on a quest to find someone who has read a book or many books and remains the same, and I can tell you with all certainty there is no one you will see. - K.C. OBI

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

Books, like friends, shoould be few and well-chosen. - Samuel Paterson

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. - Jesse Lee Bennett

Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. - Kira Hawke

Read a good book every day. Books help to educate the soul. The mere joy of learning something new will instill the will to live in you. - Sanchita Pandey

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day. - Voltaire

Life ain't like books. Books got somebody writin' 'em and tryin' to entertain ya. Life is more like a set of Legos. Unless you take care of 'em, you lose a few pieces and you end up steppin' on 'em with bare feet. You gotta take care of your life. - Laura Moncur