It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich NietzscheI'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
Steven WrightI shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane AustenBuying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Arthur SchopenhauerBooks, like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Samuel JohnsonBooks are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Robert Louis StevensonA book worth reading is worth buying.
John RuskinQuote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
Groucho MarxWhen I get a little money I buy books, and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Desiderius ErasmusAny book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya AngelouThe reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Rene DescartesThe book you don't read won't help.
Jim RohnThe covers of this book are too far apart.
Ambrose BierceYou have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.
Dr. SeussThe good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear, or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life, and one is as good as the other.
Ernest HemingwayLife isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
Charles Caleb ColtonIt took me 40 years to write my first book.
Paulo CoelhoBooks serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham LincolnBe careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark TwainYou can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.
Dr. SeussYour life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
Fran LebowitzThe proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous HuxleyBooks are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
James Russell LowellThe biggest seller is cookbooks, and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook.
Andy RooneyI love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me and I spent a year or a year and a half of my life working on it.
Stephen KingAll modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Ernest HemingwayI hate books, they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
Jean-Jacques RousseauSome good, some so-so and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my friend
Marcus AureliusA book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
Henry Ward BeecherJudge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius is above all force.
Gustave FlaubertTo buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Arthur SchopenhauerHow pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare, after all, there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!
Jane AustenI am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
Henry A. KissingerLet other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Jane AustenI read the book of Job last night I don't think God comes out well in it.
Virginia WoolfIt's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark TwainI have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.
George W. BushAll that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas CarlyleFor several days after my first book was published I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
James Matthew BarrieI went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose.
George CarlinLiterature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen KellerThe books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar WildeProvided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.
Jane AustenAll good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Ernest HemingwaySex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels, and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
Gore VidalThe real war will never get in the books.
Walt WhitmanThe multitude of books is making us ignorant.
VoltaireThe difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar WildeThere 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 GoetheMy books are like water, those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark TwainMany books require no thought from those who read them and for a very simple reason, they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Charles Caleb ColtonSex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
Andy WarholIt was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive or who had ever been alive.
James Arthur BaldwinTruth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Mark TwainThe 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 MarxIt is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
Winston ChurchillThe 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 WoolfI 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 RuskinA book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
Ray BradburyIt 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 BurnsWhen any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects 'This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives.
Robert A. HeinleinBooks are the money of Literature but only the counters of Science.
Thomas HuxleyHonesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas JeffersonAnd they write innumerable books, being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation and dodging his emptiness.
T. S. EliotThe words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Walt WhitmanThat is sad, until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
Gore VidalWhat 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 SandburgHow 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 MorissetteWriting 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. RowlingWe 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 LowellAll 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 SaganMr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar WildeIn 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 MontaigneBooks 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 JeffersonPublishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.
Paulo CoelhoThe instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours kindle it at home communicate it to others and it becomes the property of all.
VoltaireEach 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 WoolfAt some point I would like to write a book and other things but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.
Alanis Morissette