Books Quotes
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Books are not luxuries. They are the meat and drink for the mind.
Andrew Taylor -
There's a lot of material from my life in my books, but they're not really autobiographical, in the sense that they're not about my life. So, in 'A Feather on the Breath of God' I write about my parents, I write about this Russian immigrant, I write about the world of dance, but it isn't an autobiography; so much is left out.
Sigrid Nunez
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Sigmund Freud -
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.
Abraham Lincoln -
“Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.”
Elizabeth Knox -
Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
William Cowper -
Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people.
Ellen Douglas -
No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.
Jane Austen
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When you've written 10 books and have six on the New York Times best-seller list - and four have been No. 1 - I think you have a right to be a member of Congress.
Marianne Williamson -
I am an author-illustrator of children's books - and yet - I must confess I don't do the books for the kids. When I'm working on a book I'm somewhere else - at the circus - or a rustic old farm - or deep in a forest - with no thought of who might read the book or what age group it would appeal to. I write them so I can illustrate them.
Bill Peet -
We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
When I didn't have friends, I had books.
Oprah Winfrey -
For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
Francis Bacon -
Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.
Matthew Pearl
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My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous.' Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Peter Straub were the three wise men of our family bookshelf.
Michael Easton -
Music and books were my inspiration too. I read avidly as a kid. And that's the beautiful thing about books and music and even movies, is that you can actually escape. You can go into other worlds.
Gavin Friday -
An artist’s life is all very fine and moving. But only in retrospect. In books.
Bram van Velde -
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
Francis Bacon -
Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.
Jasper Fforde -
Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.
Buzz Aldrin
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Books crowbar the world open for you.
Katherine Rundell -
You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before all the details of who it is, where it is, are so intertwined in that text that it's easier to write it from scratch.
Bill Gates -
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old and die out, and after an era new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the heart of men centuries dead.
Clarence Day -
I use no figure of speech when I say that we may now buy our books in bulk. I saw, only this morning, the advertisement of a large dry goods “emporium” (’tis laces and literature now) wherein is announced for sale the bound volumes of a popular magazine. “Over eight pounds of the choicest reading, bound in the usual style—olive green.
Adeline Knapp