Books Quotes
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They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?' 'It was books, admitted Miss Minton. And Maia said, 'Good.
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Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.
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What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Books make us feel alive, and though we obviously won’t live forever, they make us feel as if we might.
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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
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The abundance of books is distraction
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I keep trying to write happy endings, but my books always end on more of a bittersweet note of ambiguity.
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Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.
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Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.
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Someday it will dawn on man that woman does not read the wonderful books with which he has filled his libraries, and though she may well admire his marvelous works of art in museums she herself will rarely create, only copy.
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I know you sometimes think that people are like books. But our lives don’t have neat logical plots, and we don’t always say beautiful, intelligent things like the characters in a novel. That’s not the way life is.
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Home is where your books are.
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Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.
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I wonder if books become in essence "files" if people wouldn't write them differently. I'm used to writing print books and I enjoy the slowness of the whole process. It makes me more deliberate about everything I say.
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...the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
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Our masterpieces are Shakespeare and Jane Austen and griots and Murasaki Shikibu, but they’re also J.K. Rowling and Chuck Palahnuik and Douglas Adams and Amy Tan and Suzanne Collins and Chinua Achebe. Read. Read them all. Read the books you love, and try to read books you don’t. Read the genres you love, but sometimes also read a book outside your comfort zone. Read voraciously.
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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.
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I’ve always preferred autumn, the season of rededication, when one experiences that same thrill in the breast that one gets walking into a vast library with its smells of old pages and oiled banisters. All those books still to be read. All those centuries of knowledge. Feeling humbled within the context of all that intelligence—but at the same time, elevated. Made part of something larger.
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One of my favourite books about hackers is 'Masters of Deception' about this hacking group in the 1990s. Many of them didn't come from wealthy families. These are kids that are very intelligent; they just happen to be misdirected.
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Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!
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All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.
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When I look for new books, I often struggle to find things that challenge and entertain me. This has caused me to spend a number of cycles thinking about where I can get the serendipitous book discovery experience that we had in physical book stores.
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The Henty books provide training in history and in many of the highest aspects of human character... American young people should read not a few Henty books, but all 99 of them.
