About Books Quotes
Suddenly, she heard a loud bang, a thump and a scream that caused her to jump from the bed. The hair on the back of her neck stood straight up and her body became one big goosebump.
The best horror novels open up, "It was beautiful summer day and the smell of flowers emanated throughout the air.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
The best sci-fi stories use the fantastical to remind us of the reality of who we are today, the hope of who we may become tomorrow, and the shame of who we were yesterday.
When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life.
More than loud acclaim, I loveBooks, silence, thought, my alcove.Pangur BánPoem by Anon Irish Monk, Translated by Seamus Heaney
What experience cannot teach you now, mentors and books can foretell! To take the lead in whatever you do, be willing to learn and educate yourself regularly!
I can't imagine it's easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved.
Reading books in one's youth is like looking at the moon through a crevice
Books, like landscapes, leave their marks in us. (...) Certain books, though, like certain landscapes, stay with us even when we left them, changing not just our weathers but our climates.
Language spread its warm, absurd rays over all my adolescent thoughts, and I felt the way we all long to feel: moody, lonely, lovesick and explosive with the prospects of tomorrow.
An intelligent, informed mind is more powerful than a loaded gun.
When you keep a strong image of what you want in your mind, and possess the conviction that it is yours by right, you send out powerful vibrations to the farthest reaches of the universe.
Her tragedy, if she had one, was to be as normal and average as any child ever born.
Reading and writing are solitary activities that increase a person’s capacity for concentration, awareness, and conceptual thought as the person weaves immediate information with stored memories.
Stifling your emotions is not the way. Ignoring your emotions is not the way. Your emotions carry important messages for you. Take the time to receive the meaning.
It is good to know one's enemy.It is better to know one's self.
Every book is a revolution. Books are our ticket out of boredom, despair, loneliness—but also ignorance.
As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that is at risk - a vital part of our culture.
To know your way round a library is to master the whole of culture, i.e. the whole world.
Books have a complete disregard for your feelings. They don't care if you are crying. They are going to continue making you cry.
We read books. They make us think. It matters very little whether we agree with the books or not.
You are a reader, and therefore a thinker, an observer, a living soul who wants more out of this human experience.
The reading of good books could soothe human stupidity, the problem is that human stupidity does not like to read.
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.
Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold.
The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.
A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person.
Thinking is contagious … so choose whom you surround yourself with carefully! Or at least take precautions so as not to infect yourself with other people’s thinking!
children need love most when they don't deserve it
The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning!