Book Quotes

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Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer.… — Hugo Chavez
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men,… — Lord Chesterfield
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I… — Julia Child
For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader. — Lee Child
I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time. — Lee Child
I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence. — Lee Child
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history. — Noam Chomsky
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes. — Agatha Christie
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and… — Agatha Christie
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. — Winston Churchill
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A home without books is a body without soul. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone. — Emile M. Cioran
There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still… — Sandra Cisneros

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