Books Quotes
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Nights without work I spend with whisky and books.
Haruki Murakami -
I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!
George W. Crane
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One of books is about the genocide in Rwanda and the other book is about a little boy who gets raped. Who needs monsters?
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
Table salt hardens here. Books mildew. Diaries flip open. Private Property: Please Turn Around.
Elizabeth Graver -
Arthur Koestler wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course is, I would say you really have to read "Darkness at Noon".
Nat Hentoff -
The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.
Evan Esar -
I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.
Sarah Dessen -
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
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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.
Andromeda Romano-Lax -
Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a welcoming community where you live.
Ethan Canin -
You should not really entertaining anyone else, but trying to be yourself, because there are already more good books than you or I could ever read in our lifetime.
Jonathan Dee -
When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf.
Haruki Murakami -
What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and there would be books.
Alice Dalgliesh -
Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!
Tony Abbott
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I'm not sure there's a difference between books that affected the way I see the world and books that influenced me as a writer.
Steve Erickson -
The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.
Etel Adnan -
There are books that are made for you to sit and puzzle over and spend time with.
Uzodinma Iweala -
Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.
Esther Meynell -
It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.
Seneca the Younger -
My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.
George Eliot
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Like books and black lives - albums still matter. Tonight and always.
Prince -
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas Carlyle -
Home is where your books are.
Erica Jong -
It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.
Eliza Acton