Books Quotes
-
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
-
Books and bullets have their own destinies.
Ernst Junger
-
Yes, yes; you’ve read thousands of books but you’ve never tried to read your own self; you rush into your temples, into your mosques, but you have never tried to enter your own heart; futile are all your battles with the devil for you have never tried to fight your own desires.
Bulleh Shah
-
I knew I loved writing, and I was raised by people who love books.
Nick McDonell
-
Although many books define the purpose of typography as enhancing the readability of the written word, one of design's most humane functions is in actuality, to help readers avoid reading.
Ellen Lupton
-
My books are friends that never fail me.
Thomas Carlyle
-
Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?
J. R. R. Tolkien
-
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.
George Steiner
-
I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn't give up. Then I wrote one more book.
Beth Revis
-
I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.
Ari Marcopoulos
-
I never read tabloids, I never buy books or go on Perez Hilton, and I never ever watch the news.
Brooke Hogan
-
Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival.
Nora Gallagher
-
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
-
I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.
Nina Bawden
-
I know how to sell books.
Mike Cernovich
-
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
Robert Frost
