Books Quotes

What we call life is only talk of nature.

Dejan Stojanovic

Do not look too far for you will see nothing.

Dejan Stojanovic

Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up.

Jennifer Donnelly

The images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation.

Francis Bacon

Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.

Laurie Notaro

The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.

Dejan Stojanovic

I don't like when people say 'I can't believe I wasted the whole day reading.' Diving into another world to free your mind is hardly a waste.

Chris Stocking

I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and transformed her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?

Jess C. Scott

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

Richard Denney

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

Alan Bennett

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

B. F. Skinner

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Oscar Wilde

Nobody steals books but your friends.

Roger Zelazny

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

Gary Snyder

Books pull you to other worlds ... let them, and enjoy the adventure.

H.B. Bolton

How does one say something new and not retell?

Dejan Stojanovic

The worst book imaginable has a redeeming quality if it gets a young person to read.

Tiffini Johnson

Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books read secretively late at night. Teenage years reading -trying to read- books I'd heard were important, Naked Lunch, and The Fountainhead, Ulysses and Women in Love... It was as though I had dreamt the perfect lover, who vanished as I woke, leaving me pining and surly.

Audrey Niffenegger

A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty.

Andrew Wolfe

He thought others were small; that was his greatness.

Dejan Stojanovic