Books Quotes

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I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of them is approximately 380 words… — Maurice Sendak
I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning....Then I go back… — Truman Capote
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images. — Fay Godwin
My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved… — Galen Rowell
Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they… — Jose Raul Capablanca
Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary. — Samuel Johnson
Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and… — Thomas Browne
My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many is not… — C.S. Lewis
Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills. — Unknown Author
Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars — Unknown Author
Just remember: you're not a 'dummy,' no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who-though technically expert-couldn't design hardware and… — Walt Mossberg
I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read… — Robertson Davies
We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture… — Chuck Palahniuk
Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas. — Pete Hautman
Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need… — Stephen Chbosky
There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon… — Mark Twain
The Bible is actually a library of books-some long, some short- written over hundreds of years by many authors. Behind each one, however, was [the]… — Billy Graham
It is time for conservatives to do what they do best and insist that a wasteful, inefficient government program gets off the books. Small government… — Christy Clark
If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to… — Thomas Jefferson
You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books. — Grenville Kleiser
Books are ever available friends, ready to serve you at will. — Grenville Kleiser

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