About Books Quotes

The show must go on, and so must The Book.

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.

Your thoughts define the boundaries of your life. Think big.

The secret to my success is actually simple: I failed so many times that succeeding eventually became a mathematical certainty.

The danger of venturing into uncharted waters is not nearly as dangerous as staying on shore, waiting for your boat to come in.

Music is the universal language, because it is the language of the universe.

Sometimes the further away the target, the less you have to try to get there.

When we procrastinate, we also put a hold on happiness.

Holding on to negative feelings and past circumstances is like placing a lock on your soul.

Life's journey is peppered with many bumps and pitfalls. If we make mountains out of each one, we will get nowhere.

Accept the good, however big or small, with no strings attached.

Being the best is rarely within our reach. Doing our best is always within our reach.

Books’ll be back, ” Esther-in-Unalaq predicts. “Wait till the power grids start failing in the 2030s and the datavats get erased. It’s not far away. The future looks a lot like the past.

Wisdom's daughter walks alone—”“Ella!” Frank stood suddenly. “Maybe it's not the best time

Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.

The real reason for quest is always self-knowledge.

But now books and men had gone their separate ways. Who has the patience for a book? Only a book.

Stories shape the world.

I can imagine her memories of the novel, or, more likely, of who she was and how she felt when reading it.

Of Books and Scribes there are no end:This Plague--and who can doubt it?Dismays me so, I've sadly pennedAnother book about it.

I want all the books on the she

Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense) exposure of one mind to another.

Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedies into works of art. I know of nothing more astonishing or more wonderful than this transformation.

Literature is life.

Publishers are businesses and I don’t blame them for that. If they didn’t make money by publishing books, there wouldn’t be any books.

A good book is not the same as a successful one.

A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently

A book did not qualify as literature unless it had polysyllabic words and incomprehensible passages.

To leap over the wall of self, to look through another’s eyes--this is valuable experience, which literature offers.

I think of literature - she wrote - as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but cannot possibly reach. And I have started too late. I will never catch up.

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.

Growing up, I loved the tale of Peter Rabbit and also books on Pippi Longstocking. Pippi was a girl who had so much fun and was very daring. My sons loved all the Dr. Seuss books

The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..

Personally I know only one person who wrote about utopia. Afterwards he was executed. I suppose it's not my genre.

Why would a book in which hardly anything happened for most of the time eat at me so much? It was the weirdest thing

It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it.

Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them.

A classic is a book that has never finished what it wants to say.

Books have power to bring you glory or doom, it all depends on perception.

Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book.

Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for the very first time.

There is no book so bad it does not contain something good.

Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp the full dimension of ways of life other than our own.

The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.

I am very careful about who I choose to build memories with. Some of them might last a lifetime.

So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea.

Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other

Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write.

Oh? And what's so stinking about it?.