Books Quotes
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Years teach us more than books.
Berthold Auerbach
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The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.
Joseph Lewis
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You get caught up in a cycle at some point, so I broke the cycle and decided; I'm going to really write a lot of books, because I need to get in touch with that part of myself in order to make more music.
Gerard Way
My Chemical Romance
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Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.
Walt Whitman
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Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.
Bliss Perry
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My advice to whoever asks me how to make a home is to not have anything, just a few shelves for books, some pillows to sit on. And then, to take a stand against the ephemeral, against passing trends... and to return to lasting values.
Gae Aulenti
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He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.
Victor Hugo
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But books, when you want to buy them, are costly and, when you need to sell them, valueless.
Gerald Kersh
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... because real thoughts come from outside and travel with us like the noodle soup we take to work; in other words, inquisitors burn books in vain. If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself.
Bohumil Hrabal
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If you think that I am mad now, then take away my books, and you'll find I've completely gone insane!
Jen Selinsky
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Well, Jim, I haven't read any of your books but I'll have to someday because they must be good considering how well they sell.
Nora Barnacle
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Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.
George Eliot
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I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.
William Faulkner
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The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.
Clarence Day
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There are many books that I love dearly, and I've seen many televised or film recreations that I just haven't thought were up to scratch.
Essie Davis
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Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.
Mike Tyson
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But not all books must be universally approved or applauded to bring meaning; books are, ultimately, the most personal of media. They can be important to only one person or to only a few people, and yet because of that they still have tremendous influence.
Anita Silvey
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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them....I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
John Milton
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Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding style or figure or theme, obviously they're hard to digest.
Elliott Colla
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I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors. If they have something to say, they will sooner or later find readers; if not, they won’t. . . . I very much love those mysterious volumes, both ancient and modern, that have no definite author but have had and continue to have an intense life of their own. They seem to me a sort of nighttime miracle, like the gifts of the Befana, which I waited for as a child. . . . True miracles are the ones whose makers will never be known. . . . Besides, isn’t it true that promotion is expensive? I will be the least expensive author of the publishing house. I’ll spare you even my presence.
Elena Ferrante
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I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate a book now, and I can love a book very much, it's never going to be that childhood passion for a book. There's some element, something special about the way they're reading books and experiencing books that's finite.
Rebecca Stead
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OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.
Gary D. Schmidt
