Books Quotes
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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
Francis Bacon
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If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper.
Winifred Holtby
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Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.
Marcel Proust
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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
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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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Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous.
Jennifer Donnelly
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In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive.
John Scott
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I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.
Ari Marcopoulos
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Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mahatma Gandhi
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On the advice of my U.K. publishers, I chose a sexless anonymity and published my first five books under the semi-pseudonym, S. J. Bolton. I was happy. I could hide behind a genderless, classless persona and let my creepy, psychological murder-mysteries speak for themselves.
Sharon Bolton
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Read the books which they the ancients have written, read those which you prefer, they will speak to you and you will speak to them.
Bernardino of Siena
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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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There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.
Joanne Rowling
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Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I knew I loved writing, and I was raised by people who love books.
Nick McDonell
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... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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As I work day after day, inspirations from different places go into the work. It's combination, but it's also comparative. I'll be reading two books at the same time that are totally different and then have two stories mix together.
Ali Banisadr
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Because I didn't go to film school, I had a collection of books that were inspiring or taught me how to make movies, shorts with my friends back in Brooklyn, and one of those books was How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime which is Roger's autobiography. After reading that, I realized that oh my God, this guy is behind all my favorite Pam Grier movies. Oh my God, he made the Vincent Price Poe films that ran on television when I was little. He did Grand Theft Auto. He made Death Race 2000.
Alex Stapleton
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Nights without work I spend with whisky and books.
Haruki Murakami
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From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little sums into a greater, without considering whether those little sums were rightly cast up or not; and at last finding the error visible, and not mistrusting their first grounds, know not which way to clear themselves; but spend time in fluttering over their books, as birds that entering by the chimney, and finding themselves enclosed in a chamber, flutter at the false light of a glass window, for want of wit to consider which way they came in.
Thomas Hobbes
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The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments have not harmed me too much.
Bent Larsen
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Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.
Friedrich Nietzsche
