Books Quotes
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I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.
Patricia Cornwell
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I buy way too many books.
Orson Scott Card
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
Irwin Redlener
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If you don't write your books, there will be graveyards full of children.
Brandon Mull
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America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.
A. S. Byatt
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I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
Ed Stoppard
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When you count all the obscure monographic books, there have been many. I probably have most of them in my library.
Iris Chang
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Comic books are a big passion of mine.
Taran Killam
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Travel teaches as much as books.
Youssou N'Dour
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I read everything and anything. I love books.
Gail Porter
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All my books are optimistic!
Malcolm Gladwell
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
Gary Dourdan
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Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books for free, not harder. It is stupid to sacrifice tomorrow’s book buyers for today’s dollars, especially when it’s obvious that the source in question doesn’t have any more dollars to give you.
Courtney Milan
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The image I had was that Oprah books were fluffy.
Tawni O'Dell
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I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.
Nathan Fillion
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
Ed Emberley
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I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams -- like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.
Hermann Hesse
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
Joanne Rowling
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And then when I got home I burrowed about among my books, arranging their volumes and loving the feel of them.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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A lot of times, when I go back to books I loved when I was young, I don't quite understand what it was that I loved about them. Rereading 'The Secret Garden,' I felt a lot like Mary feels when she visits her garden.
Ellen Potter
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My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'
Orlando Bloom
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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
Lisa See
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A collection of books is the best of all universities.
Thomas Carlyle
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Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?
Idries Shah