Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

You read, move your lips, figure out the words, and it's like you're in two places at the same time: you're sitting or lying with… — Tatyana Tolstaya
But once you publish a book, doesn’t it by definition become the realm of public discourse? Otherwise, wouldn’t we just write books and print them… — Jonathan Evison
If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar. But even then,… — Jonathan Evison
I mean, we have to read books or we'll make mistakes. If we read stories of how other people lived, we can figure out better… — Unknown Author
To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones. — Will Thomas
You can judge a man by the books in his library. — Mark Skousen
If written in the three-letter words of the four-letter alphabet,a human being is determined by a genetic narrative long enough to fill the equivalent of… — Harry Mulisch
So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me… — Cees Nooteboom
THREE DAYS TO DEAD is one of the best books I've read. Ever. Evy Stone is a heroine's heroine, and I rooted for her from… — Jackie Morse Kessler
The climate stubbornly refuses to co-operate with computer models and the writers of alarmist popular articles and books. — Ian Plimer
I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As… — Lawrence Wright
When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but… — Niall Williams
In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the children’s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories I’ve been hearing noised about for… — Unknown Author
I am writing to apply for the position of bookkeeper. Attached, you will find my list of qualifications. I have been keeping books for four… — Joey Comeau
Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise. — Philip Schaff
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a… — Yann Martel
The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books. — Unknown Author
Progress in computer science is made with the distribution of revolutionary software systems and the publication of revolutionary books. We don't need a fancy information… — Philip Greenspun
I'm always worried about how fans of the books will react, but we have kept true to a lot of the books. Obviously there are… — Unknown Author
The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting.… — Berenice Bejo
Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight. — Richard de Bury
You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are… — Richard de Bury
In books I find the dead as if they were alive; in books I foresee things to come; in books warlike affairs are set forth;… — Richard de Bury
Books alone are liberal and free; they give to all who ask; they emancipate all who serve them faithfully. — Richard de Bury
Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance. — Amy Plum

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