Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation-may… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de… — Poul Anderson
The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials by persons whose… — Amos Bronson Alcott
The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them. — Bernard Malamud
What I would most like to think they would take away, is what I take away when I read my favorite books. Which is the… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world, I've learned a ridiculous amount… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
My values are not based on violence. My values are based on courage, which you see time and time again in my books. A warrior… — Brian Jacques
Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to… — Diana Wynne Jones
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people. — Cornelia Funke
I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to… — Cornelia Funke
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art. — George Henry Lewes
The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this. — Sandra Cisneros
I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books.… — Walter Dean Myers
It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values to those who… — Walter Dean Myers
Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and… — Petrarch
Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall… — Henry George
I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those… — Edward Bellamy
All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like… — Studs Terkel
Life is sad enough without people writing sad books. — James T. Farrell
These books ain't window dressing. I think Machiavelli's the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything… — Mike Tyson
It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to read the books, to listen… — Maurice Sendak
A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a kid, my sister,… — Maurice Sendak
Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books, — Maurice Sendak
Then began an experience that turned my life around-working on a book with a black kid as hero. None of the manuscripts I'd been illustrating… — Ezra Jack Keats

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