Books Quotes - Page 84

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

Stephen Fry

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.

Shannon L. Alder

I'm not really sure what makes a book a 'classic' to begin with, but I think it has to be at least fifty years old and some person or animal has to die at the end.

Jeff Kinney

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

G.K. Chesterton

I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr.

John Green

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

Carolyn G. Heilbrun

My bookcase is all yours."I walked to the door. "I've just decided that those are my favorite five words in the world.

Kasie West

I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.

Nick Hornby

I gave him my best cryptic smile. He did not fall down to his feet, kiss my shoes, and promise me the world. I must be getting rusty.

Ilona Andrews

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

Mark Twain

You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.

Steven Wright

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.

Brandon Sanderson

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

Mark Twain

It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.

Ilona Andrews

They're book addicts.

Lemony Snicket

Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maintain his cover as a typical second-hand book seller, he used every means short of actual physical violence to prevent customers from making a purchase. Unpleasant damp smells, glowering looks, erratic opening hours - he was incredibly good at it.

Terry Pratchett

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Elend: I kind of lost track of time…Breeze: For two hours?Elend: There were books involved.

Brandon Sanderson

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.

Steven Wright

I can talk to fish!" Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner," Fang said, joining us.

James Patterson

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Ambrose Bierce

They turned to Angel. "We will call you Little One," the leader said, obviously deciding to dispense with the whole confusing name thing."Okay," said Angel agreeably. "I'll call you Guy in a White Lab Coat." He frowned."That can be his Indian name," I suggested.

James Patterson

Sections in the bookstore- Books You Haven't Read- Books You Needn't Read- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written- Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered- Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First- Books Too Expensive Now and You'll Wait 'Til They're Remaindered- Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback- Books You Can Borrow from Somebody- Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too- Books You've Been Planning to Read for Ages- Books You've Been Hunting for Years Without Success- Books Dealing with Something You're Working on at the Moment- Books You Want to Own So They'll Be Handy Just in Case- Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer- Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves- Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified- Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time to Re-read- Books You've Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It's Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them

Italo Calvino

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

G.K. Chesterton

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

Carolyn G. Heilbrun

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

Terry Pratchett

In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's just really bad luck; when you're a half-blood, you understand that some devine force is really trying to mess up your day.

Rick Riordan

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like.

Karen Marie Moning

From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Groucho Marx

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,Go throw your TV set away,And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.Then fill the shelves with lots of books.

Roald Dahl

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Bertrand Russell

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Henry Ward Beecher

Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.

Markus Herz

So many books, so little time.

Frank Zappa

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Jane Austen

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.

Richard P. Denney

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.

Jackson Pearce

To read is to empower,To empower is to write,To write is to influence,To influence is to change,To change is to live".

Jane Evershed

Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.

Richard P. Denney

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Stephen King

Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journey of exploration and discovery.

David Almond

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

Neil Gaiman

Nobody steals books but your friends.

Roger Zelazny

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

Philip Pullman

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Malcolm X

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

John Cheever

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Maya Angelou

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

Louis L'Amour

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

Margaret Walker

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Neil Gaiman

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

C.S. Lewis

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.

Henry David Thoreau

To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.

Carlos María Domínguez

Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores. It has features. This book can go under the microscope. You’d find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion. The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more ‘literary’ you are. That’s my definition anyway. Telling detail. Fresh detail. The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. So now you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life.

Ray Bradbury

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