Book Quotes

I enjoyed learning the poems, but I didn't understand of what use they might possibly be. ‘They'll keep you company on the day you have no books to read,' my teacher said.

I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.

My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes.

I've written books on advertising-cheque books.

The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

I have studied this Book, and I would never even dream of saying I've come to the bottom of the Word of God.

I am a beau in nothing but my books.

I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind.

My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.

I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.

I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels

Arguably, in business books, I don't think there's much that has never been said before.

Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

During really difficult times in my life when I start questioning why I am struggling with something, I often turn to books to understand myself better.

We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel

Nights without work I spend with whisky and books.

Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.

Where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!

A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.

The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

I was born in Japan and raised in Japan, but those are the only things that make me Japanese, I've grown up reading books from all over.

Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.

My first two books, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister, were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

Theres my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

Just think about it: God wanted to communicate with you in the twenty-first century -and he wrote His message in a book.

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.