Books Quotes
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.
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The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.
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Without reserve, I can say that my entire identity is in the books I write.
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Atheists tend to read only each other’s books and not the work of the religious thinkers they are supposedly refuting.
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I grew up in Greeley, Colorado, in a house without a television set. I was a very nerdy kid: I used to play 'astronaut' and eat bouillon as astronaut food. We also had tons of books.
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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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They are likely to have less educated parents who own fewer books and talk to them less from the time they are infants—a gap that’s been estimated at 30 million words by the time they start kindergarten.
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We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.
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Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.
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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.
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I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.
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That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on and trying to make good to dwell on characters from previous books.
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For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory’s The Sport of Rowing certainly do it all.
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Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
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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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Destroying a culture’s books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.
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The most important thing is to go out and see the stars, not to see them in books.
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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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There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa.
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Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.
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Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
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May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
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I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.
