Books Quotes
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Books have literally powered most of my life. Whether as a stress relief when doing hard things or as vacation fodder, they are a constant and important part of my life.
Harper Reed -
All the things I've read in my school books about England and the Queen were okay, but my eyes are the greatest book in the world.
Michael Jackson
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The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.
Peter Sotos -
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Haruki Murakami -
I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.
Charlize Theron -
But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.
Elizabeth von Arnim -
A man will be known by his books.
William Martin
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I've never received a dollar royalty to any of my books because I feel, as a slave everything that I have is a gift of my messenger.
Bill Bright -
Nor would I willingly miss the early darkness and the pleasant firelight tea and the long evenings among my books.
Elizabeth von Arnim -
Books are written so their authors can be heard, not so that they remain silent.
Elena Ferrante -
Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.
Bernard of Clairvaux -
That my cult of study had always seemed to her foolish, that it wasn’t books that made people good but good people who made some good books.
Elena Ferrante -
There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa.
Beryl Markham
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Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.
Ethan Canin -
There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.
John Ruskin -
Without reserve, I can say that my entire identity is in the books I write.
Elena Ferrante -
I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.
Elena Ferrante -
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
Thomas Carlyle
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Is there any excitement to compare with the opening of a fresh parcel of books?
William Targ -
I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
Haruki Murakami -
... I find myself coming out of the library with all women writers. I keep hoping the library attendant won't notice, but when 8 out of 8 of the books you take out are by women, you try not to look too dykey.
Eve Babitz -
I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.
Sarah Dessen