Book Quotes

I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and then I put it away.

Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books.

My writing has developed drastically . The Return of the Prodigal Son is the most important thing I've done, and my most mature book.

Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you'll be in as much trouble as I am!

This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets

Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars

"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.

I talk about my daily dozen in the book [ Today Matters]. Twelve things that are certainly attainable by any of us that we need to manage every day.

The positive side about dealing with the logistics of moving books around is that it's better than a gym!

The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place.

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.

Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book.

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.

Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.

I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.

The soul that feeds on books alone - I count that soul exceeding small That lives alone by book and creed, - A soul that has not learned to read.

I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.

My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something you already know, it's worth it.

There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

They’re always like, 'That’s not what happened in the books, so the show’s really bad now.' But really, they just feel insecure because they’re used to knowing what’s coming next.

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

I live to play music, and hang out with my wife and kid, and hang out with my friends, and discover the world. Read books, watch movies, see art, see the world, meet new people.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

A classic is a book that remains in print

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

There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads.

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

I read a lot of books. So, usually when I go home I try to re-charge my batteries and absorb new stories to become inspired again.

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class is the mover of history in this period.

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

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.

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry.

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

Books and marriage go ill together.

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

A book is a most delightful companion. It gives, and does not take.

Most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes.

I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.