Books Quotes

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Denn ich ohne Bücher bin nicht ich.

Christa Wolf

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

Dejan Stojanovic

Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.

Dejan Stojanovic

A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose.

Nusrat Sultana

His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.

Dejan Stojanovic

I like the sounds of words. Words are very enjoyable. I like words because they are... seductive. And I like words because they can contain... fantasies.

James Lusarde

Stories were different, though: they came alive in the telling. Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, they had no real existence in our world...They could take root in the imagination and transform the reader. Stories wanted to be read, David's mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world into ours. They wanted us to give them life.

John Connolly

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.

John Burroughs

Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.

Dejan Stojanovic

We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I feel my courage wavering, I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resiliance to push on.

Helen Hayes

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

Eckhart Tolle

The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.

Haruki Murakami

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Louisa May Alcott

the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.

Frank Peretti

And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe.

Gregory Maguire

Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!

Chris Cofler

I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.

Sylvia Brownrigg

A homeless man visited my store today. The few quarters that he had in his pocket he invested on books. I offered him free books, but he insisted on giving me his quarters. He walked away filled with joy as if he possessed the world's riches in his hands. In a way, he did. He left me smiling and knowing that he was wealthier than many others... (01-21-10)

Besa Kosova

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.

Dejan Stojanovic