We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
Lyndon JohnsonMy books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is yours stands up against you and says, 'You are a thief.'
MartialThe great objection to new books is that they prevent our reading old ones
Joseph JoubertWhen I am dead, I hope it may be said:
'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'
Hilaire BellocBooks that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Samuel JohnsonIf you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.
Lily TomlinAmericans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.
Bob BeauprezBooks are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
B C ForbesI still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John BurroughWho knows for what we live, struggle and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Alan PatonBooks are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.
Esther ForbesI 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 RowlingThese are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
Gilbert HighetBooks think for me. I can read anything which I call a book
Charles LambBooks, like friends, should be few, and well chosen
Samuel PatersonBooks are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Oswald ChambersYou can never be too thin, too rich, or have too many books.
Carter BurdenI can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.
Jim BishopBooks are a languid pleasure
MontaigneBooks 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 BerendtI went off and read the books after the audition and I read all four books in one sitting - you know - didn't wash, didn't eat, drove around with them on the steering wheel like a lunatic.
Jason IsaacsAll 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 SaganBooks 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 AndrewsBooks, 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 RowlandAlthough 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 AugustineHistory books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Anatole FranceIf 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 ThackerayEngland 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 BartonBooks are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction
Ben JonsonAs 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 LyndeBooks say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.
Julian BarnesThere is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight.
Ezra PoundPreachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
Theodor GeiselBetween 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 MarquezBooks 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 AldrichObviously 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 RowlingIf 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 ChandlerThe pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Katherine MansfieldEvery reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
Cornelia FunkeBookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section.
Barbara Taylor BradfordThe 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 WrightBooks, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Jim BishopIt 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 FaulknerWhen I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Mike TysonI take my books everywhere. Plane journeys are a good opportunity to study, or also when I'm having my hair done.
Lily ColeThe proper study of mankind is books (Crome Yellow)
Aldous HuxleyWe are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Henry FieldingUniversity 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 CornfordWhy don't you write books people can read?
Nora Joyce
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