Book Quotes

14007 quotes by 5720 authors

Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little frightening to think that every… — George Johnson
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. — Neil Gaiman
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. — Roald Dahl
Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. — Shel Silverstein
You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you. That's where I'll… — James M. Barrie
As the Little House settled down on her new foundation, she smiled happily. Once again she could watch the sun and moon and stars. Once… — Virginia Lee Burton
Frog said, 'I wrote 'Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog.' 'Oh,' said Toad, 'that makes a… — Arnold Lobel
'I don't need very much now,' said the boy, 'just a quiet place to sit and rest. I am very tired.' 'Well,' said the tree,… — Shel Silverstein
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation… — Virginia Woolf
Books succeed; and lives fail. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that. — Thomas Carlyle
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for… — Moliere
All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me. — Michel de Montaigne
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books. — Cardinal Richelieu
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least. — Frank Moore Colby
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull. — W. Somerset Maugham
Taste is the literary conscience of the soul. — Joseph Joubert

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