An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children
Benjamin DisraeliWithout 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 SchopenhauerLet'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 ErskineIf the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading, I would spurn them all
Francois De Salignac FenelonWhat progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Sigmund FreudThe great objection to new books is that they prevent our reading old ones
Joseph JoubertWhen I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Mike TysonIt is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them.
Frederick Locker-LampsonBecause 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 DavenantIt is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleBooks that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
Thomas Bailey AldrichIf sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
Bette MidlerYou can never be too thin, too rich, or have too many books.
Carter BurdenBut, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.
Isaac DisraeliBooks should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
John DenhamMy books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is yours stands up against you and says, 'You are a thief.'
MartialI feel a certain sense of responsibility, so I'm pretty vague when I get to sorcery. [On his books]
David EddingsWisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
HoraceBooks are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Robert Louis StevensonAs life goes on, don't you find that all you need is about two real friends, a regular supply of books, and a Peke?
P G WodehouseBooks let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
William HazlittAll of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl SaganIs it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?
Thomas TraherneWhat literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books
A S ByattI have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
Wendell FordNext in importance to books are their titles.
Frank CraneThe newest books are those that never grow old
Holbrook JacksonAn apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel ButlerI've written books on advertising... cheque books.
Alan SugarIt 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 HumeThere were two things Janey Little loved best in the world: music and books, and not necessarily in that order.
Charles De LintBooks are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningThe 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 CabotThe profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf 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 ChandlerBooks are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
B C ForbesBooks are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Joseph AddisonA house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
Horace MannAs far as cookbooks go, I think Joy of Cooking is a classic. I've used it over and over again. Julia Child frustrates me. By the time you get all her herbs together, you're exhausted
Paul LyndeHistory books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Anatole FranceBooks are a languid pleasure
MontaigneNo matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men
John Alfred LangfordEngland did nothing in the World Cup, so why are the players bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals, we played like sh*t, here's my book'. Who wants to read that? I don't. [To be fair he has an excellent point - it's not even like they need the cash on their salaries!]
Joey BartonI think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't have a publisher and no-one had heard of me
J K RowlingObviously 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 RowlingBooks, the children of the brain.
Jonathan SwiftBooks are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Henry Ward Beecher The big selling books by celebrities are not so much books as products.
John BerendtEvery reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
Cornelia FunkeBooks are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Oswald Chambers
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