Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid, — Carl Hiaasen
If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading… — Mortimer Adler
It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are… — Bill Vaughan
On the hob was a little brass kettle, hissing and boiling; spread upon the floor was a warm, thick rug; before the fire was a… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have… — William Hazlitt
When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The less time we… — Rachel Naomi Remen
I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my… — Jim Harrison
It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and… — Ludwig von Mises
I was reading some complex books in my own youth-and no, I didnt always understand every word, let alone every concept-but I got the main… — Tanith Lee
The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does… — Arnold Bennett
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see. — William Wycherley
I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever… — Clifford Geertz
There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of… — Washington Irving
Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will… — Geoff Dyer
Play the gayest tunes in your books, play them loud and keep on playing them, and never mind if a bullet goes through a trombone,… — Philip Sheridan
The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present. — Ross Macdonald
Changing the world doesn't require much money. Again, think in terms of empowerment and not charity. How much were Gandhi's teachers paid? How much did… — Tim Ferriss
Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon — Robert B. Parker
I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person. — Lois Lowry
I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books, — Barbara Park
I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some… — Kate DiCamillo
There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem. — Fran Lebowitz
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's… — Robert Caro
I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a… — Robert Caro
Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too. — Heinrich Heine

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