Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape. — A. S. Byatt
I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers. — A. S. Byatt
When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life. — A. S. Byatt
Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world… — Meg Cabot
I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting. — Nicolas Cage
I've always had a soft spot for comic books. — Nicolas Cage
At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic… — Nicolas Cage
It may come as a surprise to people, but I'm actually quite boring and normal. What do I do? I read books. I drive my… — Nicolas Cage
I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me. — Michael Caine
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of… — Albert Camus
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. — Truman Capote
Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books. — Orson Scott Card
I'd buy joke books and try doing them at school; I always had jokes. That would be my go-to thing at parties: I'd be able… — Drew Carey
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection… — Thomas Carlyle
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. — Thomas Carlyle
The true university of these days is a collection of books. — Thomas Carlyle
I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the… — John le Carre
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books,… — George Washington Carver
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books. — Nick Cave
The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something… — Nick Cave
I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed… — Dick Cavett
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before. — Nicolas Chamfort
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. — Chanakya
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the… — Chanakya
If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not… — Raymond Chandler

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