Book Quotes

All books are merely delayed dust.

A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.

I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world

Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full of all those stories and secrets.

I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry.'

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV

You're not a human till you're in my phone book. There. My hat is now in the political ring.

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

Writing a book is an adventure.

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.

My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

I read Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.

Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.

We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any book, any romance. It's entertainment, it's escape, and it can even be an inspiration!

If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud - you are all that, and that is love.

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.

A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.

My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment

Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.

I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in.

Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain.

I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one.

George Bush says, 'Gore's book needs a lot of explaining.' Of course, Bush says that about every book.

The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never mind the [virtual reality] bodysuit.

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

Great times call for great men.

Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

For me this book was a very practical explanation of one man's experience of Enlightened awareness in in the face of or in light of dogma-oriented wisdom.

The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

People who can write a book usually do.

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.

I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating.