Books Quotes
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There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.
Joanne Rowling -
Books and bullets have their own destinies.
Ernst Junger
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What can I say? I have a thing for women who carry heavy books and know how to use them
Courtney Milan -
Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
Nicolas Roeg -
Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
Carolyn Heilbrun -
Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.
Peter Sotos -
There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.
Anne Bronte -
Books fall open, you fall in.
David McCord
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With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.
John Locke Nazareth -
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 -
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick -
Oh, my dear, this is worse than I expected! A strange girl is always a bore among good friends, but one can generally manage her. But a girl who writes books - why, it isn't respectable! And you can't snub that sort of people; they're unsnubbable.
Elizabeth von Arnim -
I think it's absurd to believe that movies should look like paintings and say something like serious books say something.
Paul Morrissey -
In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.
Thomas Carlyle
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My best friends are books, I can easily read them and take them wherever I go.
Deborah Roberts -
One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!
Martin Luther -
Nights without work I spend with whisky and books.
Haruki Murakami -
I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.
Nina Bawden -
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.
Jonathan Swift -
Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular book.
Echo Bodine
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The books we call the New Testament were not gathered together into one canon and considered scripture, finally and ultimately, until hundreds of years after the books themselves had first been produced.
Bart Ehrman -
I believe it’s something that happens when one is around art, and when one is close to books: they seep into your system, into your blood, and start to activate something in your life. We start living in the way that some of these characters live, with some sense of their sensibility. It’s almost as if the reader becomes the writer and the writer becomes the reader…
Nilo Cruz -
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 -
Books may sleep for a while and be neglected; but whenever the desire of information springs up in the human breast, there they are with mild wisdom ready to instruct and please us.
Ann Plato