Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours. — David Baldacci
Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to… — Jeffery Deaver
I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity;… — Charles Darwin
Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music. — Charles Darwin
I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales — Carol Ann Duffy
Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x,… — Sharon Olds
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into! — Frank Iero
I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that… — Laurell K. Hamilton
One must always be careful of books, — Cassandra Clare
I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings,… — Glenn Miller
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. — Walter Pater
I hope to see the two great religions, Islam and Christianity, hand-in-hand, embracing each other. Then the Torah and the Bible and the Qur’an will… — Muhammad Abduh
The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The reader is part… — Carolyn Mackler
But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in… — Aaron Swartz
When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books. — Mother Teresa
Anyway, these books I love, they’re all books by men—every last one of them. Because if it’s unseemly and possibly dangerous for a man to… — Claire Messud
Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of every one I… — Susan Hill
Parents should leave books lying around marked ‘forbidden’ if they want their children to read. — Doris Lessing
If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into themselves, and those… — Jonathan Franzen
I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to… — Diana Gabaldon
I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I… — Diana Gabaldon
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing. — Martin Luther
Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the… — Assata Shakur
I jerk off inside books, and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you've probably never heard — Immortal Technique
They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em — Zack de la Rocha

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