Books Quotes
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
~Salman Rushdie
~Salman Rushdie
A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.
~Justin Winsor
~Justin Winsor
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
~G. K. Chesterton
~G. K. Chesterton
A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.
~Richard Russo
~Richard Russo
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
~Walt Whitman
~Walt Whitman
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
~Robertson Davies
~Robertson Davies
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
~Carl Sagan
All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History.
~Tim LaHaye
~Tim LaHaye
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
~P. J. O'Rourke
~P. J. O'Rourke
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
~Benjamin Disraeli
~Benjamin Disraeli
And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.
~Peter Sotos
~Peter Sotos
And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week and he's fascinated just about every subject.
~David Gest
~David Gest
At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.
~Jonathan Carroll
~Jonathan Carroll
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
~Paxton Hood
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
~Samuel Butler
~Samuel Butler
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
~Garson Kanin
~Garson Kanin
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
~Henry Ward Beecher
~Henry Ward Beecher
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
~Henry David Thoreau
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
~Charles W. Eliot
~Charles W. Eliot
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
~Thomas Jefferson
~Thomas Jefferson
Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.
~Samuel West
~Samuel West
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
~Paul Valery
~Paul Valery
Books on travel are also good: the best being the kind of writing and pictures to inspire an escape or, at the very least, a flight of fancy.
~Louise Brown
~Louise Brown
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
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
Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.
~Dean Koontz
~Dean Koontz
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
~Charles Caleb Colton
~Charles Caleb Colton
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
~Dorothy L. Sayers
~Dorothy L. Sayers
Conservative publishing house. Yes, that is a fair description, hough we're on the lookout for books by liberals with something to say, too.
~Thomas Spence
~Thomas Spence
Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!
~Nigel Dennis
~Nigel Dennis
Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
~Lenore Hershey
~Lenore Hershey
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
~Amy Lowell
~Amy Lowell
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
~Groucho Marx
~Groucho Marx
Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.
~Shelby Foote
~Shelby Foote
Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with.
~Jeffery Deaver
~Jeffery Deaver
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful.
~Dame Rose Macaulay
~Dame Rose Macaulay
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
~Charles Caleb Colton
~Charles Caleb Colton
Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.
~Mickey Spillane
~Mickey Spillane
How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?
~John James Audubon
~John James Audubon
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
~Upton Sinclair
~Upton Sinclair
I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time.
~Wynton Marsalis
~Wynton Marsalis
I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.
~Haruki Murakami
~Haruki Murakami
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