Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to… — Rick Moody
My studies with Botvinnik brought me immense benefit, particularly the homework assignments which forced me to refer to chess books and to work independently. — Anatoly Karpov
In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother. — Robert Henri
My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have — Irwin Shaw
What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work,… — Gene Stratton-Porter
The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder. — Elizabeth McCracken
The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity... — A. Edward Newton
As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books. — A. Edward Newton
There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible. — Mark Rylance
I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well. — Steven Moffat
Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain… — James Salter
I am thrilled that DDLJ has beaten all records, Shah Rukh Khan and I share a close friendship that translates onto the screen. We have… — Kajol
Zombie books were going to be my passion projects, but certainly not pay the bills. I thought I was going to have to get a… — Max Brooks
The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books. — John Hersey
You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from… — Norma McCorvey
Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease… — Jonathan Raban
I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown… — Anne Fadiman
Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version… — Laura Hillenbrand
This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another. — John Hodgman
I’d volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free. — Unknown Author
There are all these new books out there portraying Asian mothers as scheming, callous, overdriven people indifferent to their kids' true interests. For their part,… — Amy Chua
Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as our friends. — Joseph Barrell
Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my… — Christian Lacroix
It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that… — Fay Godwin

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