Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough. — Irwin Shaw
The passion has never left me. I live as two people - myself, Dan Fante, and Bruno Dante or Mickey Di Salvo, or whoever I… — Unknown Author
Be Careful Of Books. Be Careful With Books. Be Careful Or One Can Become A Weapon-Wielder. Be Careful Or One Can Become The Victim. — Cai Guo-Qiang
I often reread books I have written — Taylor Caldwell
My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that in all of… — Lisi Harrison
Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no… — Richard Whately
To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of… — John Cowper Powys
We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've become… — Fisher Ames
The Social Citizen is the best, most thorough, and most methodologically sophisticated treatment of the role of social networks in political behavior that I have… — James H. Fowler
Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall,the… — Jandy Nelson
It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books. — Alex Flinn
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man. — Alfred Nobel
For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart. — Amanda Hocking
I wanted to know what it was like to be a drug addict, and have an eating disorder, and have a loved one die, and… — Jackson Pearce
Only think about the people you enjoy. Only read the books you enjoy, that make you happy to be human. Only go to the events… — James Altucher
When you talk to people about the books that have meant a lot to them, it's usually books they read when they were younger because… — Unknown Author
I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders, Barnes & Noble,… — James V. Schall
Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY) — John Clute
Not every child takes instantly to books like a duck to water, but I don’t believe there are children who hate books. There are just… — Amanda Craig
Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings — Julius Lester
I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt. — Dana Spiotta
This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is really like, you… — Geoff Ryman
I calmed myself by walking into my nearby bookstore and marveling at all the books other people had written. So many people had finished and… — Heidi Julavits
It’s a shame, sort of a waste, that most people are influenced by what the newspaper supplements tell them is the book they are meant… — Steve Aylett
My books are not really books; theyre endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub… — Mary Roach

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