Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me… — John Green
I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four... — Judy Blume
My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth… — Sara Zarr
It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. []… — William Faulkner
I'm already in the (record) books three or four times. — Rickey Henderson
It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all… — Rickey Henderson
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture,… — Jim Jarmusch
Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time… — David Copperfield
I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the… — Anne McCaffrey
I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens — Anne McCaffrey
I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing. — Terry Brooks
Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York… — Terry Brooks
A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books. — Andrei Tarkovsky
Kids just don't read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It's just hard to get kids to read anything. Book sales… — Stan Sakai
I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar — Bill Sienkiewicz
The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably great in bed,… — Sherman Alexie
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the… — Alfred North Whitehead
Das war ein vorspeil nur; That was only a prelude; dort wo man Buecher verbrennt, Where one burns books, vebrennt man auch am Ende One… — Heinrich Heine
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books! — Thomas Carlyle
Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer. — Newell Dwight Hillis
It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for… — Nikola Tesla
When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front… — Jeff Dunham
I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and experience a personal… — Shel Silverstein
You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies, What… — Henry Wotton

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