Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
Dr. SeussThe difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar WildeNine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Benjamin DisraeliI knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
Carl SandburgThere is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
Ernest HemingwayThe best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
Agatha ChristieUntil I became a published writer I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject... they would have spoiled my natural style, made me observe caution, would have hedged me with rules.
Isaac AsimovMen have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree, the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Jane AustenI can tell you honest friend what to believe: believe life, it teaches better that book or orator.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA good novel tells us the truth about its hero, but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid stable business.
John SteinbeckAs far as I knew, white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya AngelouI am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand, I teach in order to learn.
Robert FrostSex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
Andy WarholDiscovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.
Chuck PalahniukThere is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away, nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
Emily DickinsonTruth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Mark TwainI read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.
Bill GatesThe person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.
Jane AustenBooks are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Mark TwainPractically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book and does.
Groucho MarxSome of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
MoliereNature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
Winston ChurchillIt was not very wonderful that Catherine... should prefer cricket base ball... to books.
Jane AustenEvery time there's a revolution it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
Mike TysonUpon books the collective education of the race depends, they are the sole instruments of registering perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Harry S. TrumanBut I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.
Lord ByronCensorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard ShawLiterature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
Gertrude SteinHe who studies books alone will know how things ought to be and he who studies men will know how they are.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe good ended happily and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Oscar WildeI've been asked this question so many times - 'do you feel you need to write a book for adults?' No, I don't need to write a book for adults.
J. K. RowlingThis is an important book the critic assumes because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
Virginia WoolfBooks like friends should be few and well chosen. Like friends too we should return to them again and again, for like true friends they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
Charles Caleb ColtonI wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.
Steven WrightAll books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour and the books of all time.
John RuskinEvery book is a quotation, and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries, and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark TwainThis is the sixth book I've written which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
George BurnsA truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading I must finish by acting.
Henry David ThoreauTo a poet silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Sidonie Gabrielle ColetteOne always tends to overpraise a long book because one has got through it.
E. M. ForsterBooks are the money of Literature but only the counters of Science.
Thomas HuxleyAt night when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
E. M. ForsterThe chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
Robert FrostA book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
Charles LambI don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin' check clears.
Chuck PalahniukI spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true if once understood.
Max MullerAnd this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees books, in the running brooks sermons, in stones and good in everything.
William ShakespeareThere are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Marcel ProustEvery library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Oliver Wendell HolmesBooks are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Henry Ward BeecherIf a secret history of books could be written and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace ThackerayA man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Ernest HemingwayHonesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas JeffersonNever lend books for no one ever returns them, the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
Anatole FranceOnce I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long, and the age of the great epics is past.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAnd they write innumerable books, being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation and dodging his emptiness.
T. S. EliotA man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
Doug CouplandA bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Jerry SeinfeldIt's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
Stephen CoveyA scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not everyone that can read in it.
William HazlittThe words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Walt WhitmanOutside books we avoid colorful characters.
Mason CooleyThere's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.
Chuck PalahniukBeware of the person of one book.
Thomas AquinasOne sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions to be master of them.
David Herbert LawrenceThat is sad, until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
Gore VidalA room without books is like a body without a soul.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAnother thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.
Mike TysonWhat we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of lying.
Oscar WildeI have become infected now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
Carl SandburgBooks are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
Henry David ThoreauBooks are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Joseph AddisonHow long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
John RuskinI'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually ultimately I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.
Alanis MorissetteI'm not really book-smart.
EminemWriting a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement, then it becomes a mistress and then it becomes a master and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him out to the public.
Winston ChurchillWith all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops, or the shelves of holiday houses, to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
J. K. RowlingIf you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.
William ShatnerGetting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.
Erma BombeckWe don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
Carl SandburgLearning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Thomas FullerAnd the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
J. K. RowlingWhat a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
James Russell LowellParadise Lost is a book that once put down is very hard to pick up again.
Samuel JohnsonIf the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?
Jane AustenAll of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl SaganA book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
Franz KafkaBooks that you carry to the fire and hold readily in your hand are most useful after all.
Samuel JohnsonIf a man writes a book let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar WildeEverything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]
Richard BachBut more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
H. P. LovecraftIn true education anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
Michel de MontaigneToday's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Gore VidalA book that is shut is but a block.
Thomas FullerBooks constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house for hundreds of years. It is not then an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital and often in the case of professional men setting out in life it is their only capital.
Thomas JeffersonSome books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis BaconBad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
George WashingtonA reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man, or a fair man of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.
Joseph AddisonA man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel JohnsonWhen I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only but now and then I come across a passage perhaps only a phrase which has a meaning for me and it becomes part of me.
W. Somerset MaughamEvery burned book enlightens the world.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Mark TwainDon't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. EisenhowerAs an old reporter we have a few secrets and the first thing is we try the phone book.
Andy RooneyO Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book either without the other is naught.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe book salesman should be honored, because he brings to our attention as a rule the very books we need most and neglect most.
ConfuciusPublishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.
Paulo CoelhoBooks must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Francis Bacon'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
Lewis CarrollA morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt WhitmanHaving been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
Fran LebowitzI don't read 'chick lit ' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
J. K. RowlingNever loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
Doug CouplandOne of Edward's Mistresses was Jane Shore who has had a play written about her, but it is a tragedy and therefore not worth reading.
Jane AustenI don't think about who the audience is for my books.
J. K. RowlingIt's very difficult to read a book on your computer.
Paulo CoelhoI am mortified to be told that in the United States of America the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
Thomas JeffersonEach has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia WoolfMy room for books and study, or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular, to see what would happen, was at the end of a hall.
Carl SandburgI don't think I've read any of the books that have been written about me.
Hillary ClintonBooks will speak plain when counselors blanch.
Francis BaconWhat I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.
Chuck PalahniukBooks are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David ThoreauOne whose knowledge is confined to books, and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge, nor wealth, when the need for them arises.
ChanakyaBooks and marriage go ill together.
MoliereBooks can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service, we lay them aside.
Henry David ThoreauRead much but not many books.
Gustave Flaubert