A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt WhitmanIf a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace ThackerayWhat progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Sigmund FreudYou importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them
MartialMy only books
Were woman's looks,
And folly's all they've taught me.
Thomas MooreThe wise man reads both books and life itself.
Lin YutangHistory books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Anatole FranceIt is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.
William FaulknerAlthough most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.
Norman AugustineWithout books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, 'Lighthouses' as the poet said 'erected in the sea of time.' They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
Arthur SchopenhauerBooks, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
Helen RowlandYou do know I'm wanting to borrow books, not money or a key to a suite at the Cipriani?
Lucy ManganUniversity printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.
Francis CornfordBetween the covers of the books that no-one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated.
Gabriel MarquezHugh Grant and I both laugh and cringe at the same things, worship the same books, eat the same food, hate central heating and sleep with the window open. I thought these things were vital, but being two peas in a pod ended up not being enough.
Liz HurleyThe impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.
Richard WrightWhat literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books
A S ByattBooks of quotations are an elemental model of how culture is perpetuated, the wisdom of the trite passed on to posterity, to be added to, edited, and modified by subsequent generations.
Robert AndrewsThe newest books are those that never grow old
Holbrook JacksonWhen I am dead, I hope it may be said:
'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'
Hilaire BellocBe careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint
Mark TwainWe turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record.
Richard CurtisTo limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves
Claude Arien HelvetiusIf my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come
Raymond ChandlerIn the writing of books, as all the world knows, two things are above all other things essential - the one is to know exactly when and where to leave off, and the other to be equally certain when and where to begin.
Jeffrey FarnolWherever books will be burned, men also, in the end, are burned. (Almansor)
Heinrich HeineThe great objection to new books is that they prevent our reading old ones
Joseph JoubertThe big selling books by celebrities are not so much books as products.
John BerendtThe booger jokes. And my editor always takes out four letter words when I put then in the children's books. And the sex parts [on the difference between kids and adults books]
Meg CabotMen do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Ezra PoundBooks are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
W B YeatsThe best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
George OrwellBorrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
Peter F DruckerDoesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off.
Howard StringerIn the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Bob DylanA buck in the hand is worth two on the books.
David FarberYou can never be too thin, too rich, or have too many books.
Carter BurdenWriting books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Norman MailerWe are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Henry FieldingSome books stretch the imagination. This one mugs it. [On the novel Spares]
David BaddielSome books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W H AudenBecause they commonly make use of treasure found in books, as of other treasure belonging to the dead and hidden underground; for they dispose of both with great secrecy, defacing the shape and image of the one as much as of the other.
William DavenantLet's tell young people the best books are yet to written: the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them [a nice and positive quote!]
John ErskineThere's a million of those self-help books to tell you to just see it and believe it and it's going to happen. That's a great policy
James BlakeThe man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
John DawkinsCensorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard ShawBooks are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Henry Ward Beecher It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections
David HumeObviously there will be a sense of achievement... I suppose there will be some benefits to not writing Harry Potter books any more. So it is about fifty-fifty really
J K RowlingYour second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
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