Book Quotes

I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.

Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.

Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.

We had become those guys... who started a fight... at a Harry Potter book party.

I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people you meet and the books you read.

Unintended Consequences is full of substance, it is one of the must-read books of the year, and once I finish it I will be giving it a second read through right away.

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

The good of a book lies in its being read.

libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands

So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments.

Books make great gifts because... [they don't] come in any particular size, so you don't have to be embarrassed if you bought somebody the wrong size.

More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.

He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends

I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.

The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.

A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that under your arm, kids. That is status.

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess is supposed to be

Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive.

Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.

Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.

Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.

Books should cost less and they should be digital.

Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I spring from the pages into your arms-decease calls me forth.

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.

What I do with my books is to create windows to my world that all may peer into. I share the images, the feelings and thoughts, and, I hope, the delight.

If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.

I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.

A million dollars sounds like a lot, I know. Especially when you're young. But you can't let money erode your principles or you'll wind up with nothing.

The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.

For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.

You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.

You open doors when you open books... doors that swing wide to unlimited horizons of knowledge, wisdom, and inspiration that will enlarge the dimensions of your life.

Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.

The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers in New York and I couldn't decide which one to jumo into.

I'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It's like, 'OK, I can just read a book.'

Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.

Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston.

A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.

The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.

It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.

Books are not seldom talismans and spells.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.

Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.

The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!