Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself? — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which no-one returned the… — Shirley Hazzard
Can we really be friends with those who don't love the books that we do? Of course we can, but can we really be friends… — Ramona Koval
At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents split up. It… — Elliot Perlman
Let us pick up our books and pencils. They are our most powerful weapon. — Malala Yousafzai
Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not… — Moshe Dayan
Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines… — Sara Paretsky
People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases. — Mark Twain
Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most moved to write,… — Herman Melville
In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about… — Ernest Hemingway
Books are a triviality. Life alone is great. — Thomas Carlyle
If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so,… — Ernest Hemingway
Everything which is good in me should be credited to books. — Maxim Gorky
You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Get stewed:Books are a load of crap. — Philip Larkin
We never tire of the friendships we form with books. — Charles Dickens
I don't take drugs, I take books. — Ingeborg Bachmann
Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in… — Unknown Author
It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts… — Leo Tolstoy
When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, it's like reading a book and it's exciting. I don't read books,… — Les Miles
Russell Brand has announced that he plans to write a series of children's books. First up: 'Horton Hears a Heroin Dealer.' — Joan Rivers
So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly… — Friedrich Nietzsche
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce… — Charles Caleb Colton
Eight out of 100 people in the Himalayas have published their own books. — Unknown Author
The virtue of books is to be readable. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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