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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman

If 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 Thackeray

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Sigmund Freud

You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them
Martial

My only books
Were woman's looks,
And folly's all they've taught me.
Thomas Moore

The wise man reads both books and life itself.
Lin Yutang

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Anatole France

It 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 Faulkner

Although 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 Augustine

Without 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 Schopenhauer

Books, 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 Rowland

You do know I'm wanting to borrow books, not money or a key to a suite at the Cipriani?
Lucy Mangan

University 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 Cornford

Between 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 Marquez

Hugh 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 Hurley

The 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 Wright

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books
A S Byatt

Books 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 Andrews

The newest books are those that never grow old
Holbrook Jackson

When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'
Hilaire Belloc

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint
Mark Twain

We turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record.
Richard Curtis

To 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 Helvetius

If 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 Chandler

In 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 Farnol

Wherever books will be burned, men also, in the end, are burned. (Almansor)
Heinrich Heine

The great objection to new books is that they prevent our reading old ones
Joseph Joubert

The big selling books by celebrities are not so much books as products.
John Berendt

The 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 Cabot

Men 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 Pound

Books 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 Yeats

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
George Orwell

Borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
Peter F Drucker

Doesn'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 Stringer

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Bob Dylan

A buck in the hand is worth two on the books.
David Farber

You can never be too thin, too rich, or have too many books.
Carter Burden

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Norman Mailer

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Henry Fielding

Some books stretch the imagination. This one mugs it. [On the novel Spares]
David Baddiel

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W H Auden

Because 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 Davenant

Let'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 Erskine

There'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 Blake

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
John Dawkins

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard Shaw

Books 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 Hume

Obviously 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 Rowling

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
Leigh Hunt



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