Books Quotes

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Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves. — Russell Banks
I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again… — John Banville
It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature. — John Banville
I am the worst judge of my books. — John Banville
I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects. — John Banville
In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite high. — John Banville
The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be. — John Banville
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. — Lynda Barry
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. — Bernard Baruch
So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space… — Abu Bakar Bashir
All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this… — Mario Batali
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of… — Joseph Addison
Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way. — Kate Beckinsale
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States… — Kate Beckinsale
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. — Henry Ward Beecher
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. — Henry Ward Beecher
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. — Henry Ward Beecher
Books are not men and yet they stay alive. — Henry Ward Beecher
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. — Hilaire Belloc
I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say. — Dirk Benedict

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