Books Quotes

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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great… — Paul Auster
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books. — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about… — Sean Astin
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack… — Margaret Atwood
I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look… — Margaret Atwood
I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,' or 'Nobody under… — Margaret Atwood
If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author… — Margaret Atwood
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
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
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
I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing. — Paul Auster
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
I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books. — Kevin Bacon
Americans like fat books and thin women. — Russell Baker
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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