Books Quotes

That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him

Samuel Johnson

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

Friedrich Nietzsche

And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.

George Orwell

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.

J.K. Rowling

What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.

Neil Gaiman

Books are the liberated spirits of men.

Mark Twain

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

Henry David Thoreau

Books are the best type of influence of the past...Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

Thomas Hobbes

Good books are for consideration after, too.

Stephen King

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.

John Green

I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU!

Steve Maraboli

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr Erskine.

Oscar Wilde

... a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work....

Benjamin Franklin

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

Stephen King

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Mark Twain

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Oscar Wilde

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Henry David Thoreau

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

Martin Luther King Jr.