Book Quotes
14007 quotes by 5987 authors
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
— Saint Augustine
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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
— Jane Austen
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has…
— Jane Austen
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You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an…
— Paul Auster
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Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick…
— Paul Auster
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I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.
— Paul Auster
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No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much…
— Paul Auster
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The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a…
— Paul Auster
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father…
— Paul Auster
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The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own…
— Michele Bachmann
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I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.
— Kevin Bacon
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Americans like fat books and thin women.
— Russell Baker
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The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a…
— Russell Baker
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who…
— James A. Baldwin
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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
— Arthur Balfour
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I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
— Iain Banks
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