Books Quotes - Page 14

Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.

A good book will surely become an event in your life.

I am a passionate reader.New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A world without books would be a world not worth living in.

Eugenia Argerami

I am obsessed with books.I am a book collector.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The world of books captured my heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Be great, read great books.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The most comfortable place for a tired mind is in the lap of a book.

Aman Jassal

Books are to the mind as the whetstone for the knives.

Aman Jassal

Everyone and Everything is conspiring to end up in a book.

Aman Jassal

That’s what our country needs – more books and far more readers.

Aman Jassal

If a book doesn’t inspire you to read more, it was not worth read.

Aman Jassal

I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers... only they don't critique me and then get up for coffee.

Ryan Lilly

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.

Aman Jassal

Books are a treasured friend, however it’s difficult to explain it to a non-reader.

Aman Jassal

If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice.

Aman Jassal

I always thought 'love at first sight' was silly and incredibly irresponsible. Then, you came along and you flipped it on me. I understand it now. I do! ~Sheriff Derrick Decker

Laney Smith

Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.

Jill Lepore

Lost in a book is a great place to be found.

Shannon Taylor Hodnett

There are no such things as book hoarders, only aspiring librarians

Inafetse Santos

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries -old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.

Umberto Eco

I am trying to sell beauty.Worst that you can do to me is not buy it!

Koral Dasgupta

A book is an ocean,Its upon you,Whether you find pearls,Or only take a drop….!!!!

Aqeel Rafique

Books are like plants. They're decorations that are alive.

Katy Lee

I'm usually a bit awkward in houses that I haven't been to before, so it's a way to not look weird. If I find something I've read before it automatically makes me more comfortable.

Adi Alsaid

Keynes was a voracious reader. He had what he called ‘one of the best of all gifts – the eye which can pick up the print effortlessly’. If one was to be a good reader, that is to read as easily as one breathed, practice was needed. ‘I read the newspapers because they’re mostly trash,’ he said in 1936. ‘Newspapers are good practice in learning how to skip; and, if he is not to lose his time, every serious reader must have this art.’ Travelling by train from New York to Washington in 1943, Keynes awed his fellow passengers by the speed with which he devoured newspapers and periodicals as well as discussing modern art, the desolate American landscape and the absence of birds compared with English countryside.54‘As a general rule,’ Keynes propounded as an undergraduate, ‘I hate books that end badly; I always want the characters to be happy.’ Thirty years later he deplored contemporary novels as ‘heavy-going’, with ‘such misunderstood, mishandled, misshapen, such muddled handling of human hopes’. Self-indulgent regrets, defeatism, railing against fate, gloom about future prospects: all these were anathema to Keynes in literature as in life. The modern classic he recommended in 1936 was Forster’s A Room with a View, which had been published nearly thirty years earlier. He was, however, grateful for the ‘perfect relaxation’ provided by those ‘unpretending, workmanlike, ingenious, abundant, delightful heaven-sent entertainers’, Agatha Christie, Edgar Wallace and P. G. Wodehouse. ‘There is a great purity in these writers, a remarkable absence of falsity and fudge, so that they live and move, serene, Olympian and aloof, free from any pretended contact with the realities of life.’ Keynes preferred memoirs as ‘more agreeable and amusing, so much more touching, bringing so much more of the pattern of life, than … the daydreams of a nervous wreck, which is the average modern novel’. He loved good theatre, settling into his seat at the first night of a production of Turgenev’s A Month in the Country with a blissful sigh and the words, ‘Ah! this is the loveliest play in all the world.’55Rather as Keynes was a grabby eater, with table-manners that offended Norton and other Bloomsbury groupers, so he could be impatient to reach the end of books. In the inter-war period publishers used to have a ‘gathering’ of eight or sixteen pages at the back of their volumes to publicize their other books-in-print. He excised these advertisements while reading a book, so that as he turned a page he could always see how far he must go before finishing.A reader, said Keynes, should approach books ‘with all his senses; he should know their touch and their smell. He should learn how to take them in his hands, rustle their pages and reach in a few seconds a first intuitive impression of what they contain. He should … have touched many thousands, at least ten times as many as he reads. He should cast an eye over books as a shepherd over sheep, and judge them with the rapid, searching glance with which a cattle-dealer eyes cattle.’ Keynes in 1927 reproached his fellow countrymen for their low expenditure in bookshops. ‘How many people spend even £10 a year on books? How many spend 1 per cent of their incomes? To buy a book ought to be felt not as an extravagance, but as a good deed, a social duty which blesses him who does it.’ He wished to muster ‘a mighty army … of Bookworms, pledged to spend £10 a year on books, and, in the higher ranks of the Brotherhood, to buy a book a week’. Keynes was a votary of good bookshops, whether their stock was new or second-hand. ‘A bookshop is not like a railway booking-office which one approaches knowing what one wants. One should enter it vaguely, almost in a dream, and allow what is there freely to attract and influence the eye. To walk the rounds of the bookshops, dipping in as curiosity dictates, should be an afternoon’s entertainment.

Richard Davenport-Hines

If books are your good friends, then a conscious life will be your best comrade all your life!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Every book has its ancestors

Bangambiki Habyarimana

There's nothing like a printed book; the weight, the woody scent, the feel, the look.

E.A. Bucchianeri

As I look around the quiet room, I see a thousand leather covers like doorways into worlds unknown.

Laura Whitcomb

Writing is exposing yourself to strangers

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

A sea of dreams trapped in a span of pressed pages

Laura Whitcomb

I do not believe in God. I have no religion. But this to me is as close to a church as I have known in this life. It is a holy place. With bookstores like this, I feel confident in saying that there will be a book business for a very long time.

Gabrielle Zevin

She was certain this trip would be a landslide of regret, anger and resentment, crumbling around a day of sadness.

Shannyn Leah

Her hands moved up his arms and tried to ignore the tingling zapping her skin like the metal edges of the Operation game.

Shannyn Leah

Someone mentioned therapy to me once. I read a book instead. ~ Drew Stirling

Jayden Hunter

I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

One day I will write a book. An epitaph

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Reading a book makes a conversation with the author (Robin Sharma on The Cure For Fear - Robin Sharma)

Deyth Banger

...Okay... probably now you have read all my books up to now..., you have check out everything what I have and you are asking what more???Check out horror and try to understand it!

Deyth Banger

Someone needs to buy a radio station, then play nothing but audio books, with a different genre of book played at set times. That way we can always have something new to read, no matter where we are.

Shana Chartier

Which is my favourite book??Very complicated question... so far... I think that the question should be "My favourite books...!".

Deyth Banger

(A point of view of a stupidy of mankind)...Hey... did you check out the book by Stephen King in 7 June published??... (I was talking to one friend if I can put him as a friend...)The teacher says "Stop with this books.."... pff I said once not twice, why to stop?

Deyth Banger

You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. A smarty-pants, the kind you don't find every day.

Junot Díaz

Oh, oh, oh I can't do that and that... Okay I will do that,... I gonna read this book, I will check out this film and in the end few of them have read the book or the books and the film or the films.

Deyth Banger

Which is my favourite author??You have mistake it must be authors I have a lot of favourite authors, which is my book, opps again a mistake, it must be books...

Deyth Banger

Yeah, I'm working on the 7 volume of "The Life Of One Kid", but the cover it's not written 7 volume...

Deyth Banger

I love you," I said to her. "From the bottom of my heart. I don't ever want to let you go again. But there's nothing I can do. I can't make a move.""Because of her?"I nodded.

Haruki Murakami

It will be awesome audiobooks to go like films, but more longer!

Deyth Banger

Could a writer understand how her book had saved someone long ago, when the world was a fragile, scary place and the people she loved weren't in it anymore? Could a writer understand that her book had mattered more than anything?

Ann Hood

It mattered most to me then because of where I was in my life. So in a way, there isn't just one book that matters most, there might be several, or even a dozen.

Ann Hood

You think writing a book is hard? Wait until you give it to someone to read.

Ken Stark

It makes me sad that not every book is good,' I said. 'Not every book can be loved.''But when I pull a book off a shelf, and examine it, turning it this way and that, inspecting the cover, flipping through the pages and glancing at the words as they flash by, a thought here and a sentence there and I know that there is potential between those pages for love. Even if in my opinion the book is bad, someone else may find it good. Isn’t that like love?

Cecil Castellucci

The good thing of TV movies/books... TV series... audiobooks is that you can choose the genre and you have plenty of choice.

Deyth Banger

Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl.

Haruki Murakami

Had I known that coffee could taste so good, I would have gotten drunk on it every day.

Rabih Alameddine

Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.

Heinrich Heine

Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.

Hemant Mehta

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief—call it what you will—than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

A.A. Milne

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