Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. — Peter Drucker
What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten… — Melissa Rosenberg
I must have books everywhere. They're the soul of a room-they reveal the taste, the interests, and the secrets of whoever lives there. — Diane von Furstenberg
No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck. — Woody Allen
"For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that is eternal. It… — Hermann Hesse
On the announcement that signs of extra terrestrial life were found in a meteorite, August 6, 1996 A hundred years from now Bob Dole's new… — Richard E. Berendzen
Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine. Believe… — Gautama Buddha
To be honest, when I was writing these stories a million years ago, I never thought about movies at all one way or another. It… — Stan Lee
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how… — Anne Lamott
Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have dedicated too much… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal. — Ernest K. Gann
As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial… — Julie Burchill
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we… — Laura Bush
Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds… — Simon Raven
I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop… — Jack Vance
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. — Jorge Luis Borges
I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable. — Amy Tan
I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food,… — P.D. James
Truth isn’t in accounts but in account-books. — Josephine Tey
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered… — Rex Stout
The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my… — Rex Stout
I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my… — Lance Burton
I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or… — Tom Araya
Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books… — Henry Mackenzie
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer. — Ken Follett

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