Books Quotes

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Gustave Flaubert

Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.

Steve Lopez

A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person.

Sandra Chami Kassis

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.

Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Li

It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry.

David Baldacci

Book is a detergent which cleans the dirt of ignorance and bad thoughts from our mind. Read books!, befriend books!! REMEMBER: Mind too is one kind of a book, develop the skill to read your own mind. All the book existing into this world has wander the mind of our great author before they came into existence.

Manish Kathuria

A publisher is a specialized form of bank or building society, catering for customers who cannot cope with life and are therefore forced to write about it.

Colin Haycraft

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.

Franz Kafka

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

William Shakespeare

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

Margaret Walker

Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.

Dejan Stojanovic

Ignoraba que las palabras pudieran pesar tanto.

Markus Zusak

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

Dejan Stojanovic

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Imagination is what you do with your inspiration.

Violet Haberdasher

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Khaled Hosseini

From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.

Dejan Stojanovic

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Lawrence Clark Powell

Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in there 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 journy of exploration and discovery.

David Almond

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