Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county,… — Thomas Jefferson
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress… — Eleanor Roosevelt
When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales… — Thomas Paine
A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which… — Justin Winsor
I never have [suffered writer’s block], although I’ve had books that didn’t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just abandoned them. It… — Margaret Atwood
We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what… — Ray Bradbury
The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the little… — James Lane Allen
Books are not seldom talismans and spells. — William Cowper
And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of… — Vikram Seth
But everything of value about me is in my books. — V.S. Naipaul
I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books in most of… — Chetan Bhagat
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement.… — B.F. Skinner
The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no… — Mark Van Doren
The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for. — Allan Bloom
It is June. This is what I have decided to do with my life just now. I will do this work and lead this life,… — Elizabeth Hardwick
Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill a Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! Sure it… — Homer
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little. — Sol LeWitt
There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful. — Nicholas Sparks
By making the place and the people and the feelings real, by the time someone closes the cover of one of my books, they have,… — Nicholas Sparks
As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine. Since there are… — Joseph Brodsky
There are a lot of things I cannot do, such as eat books and read chicken. — Thom Yorke
All my life, I never believed most things I read in history books and a lot of things I learned in school. But now I've… — Kurt Cobain
There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. — Margaret Fuller
The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great thinker is a… — Theodore Parker

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