Book Quotes

"The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one"

Jeffrey Eugenides, Novelist

"You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death"

Brian P. Cleary, Author

"My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus"

Robert Cormier, Author

"Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more"

Elizabeth Hardwick, Critic

"I never buy magazines, I never even buy books"

Marc Newson, Designer

"I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms"

Lisa Whelchel, Actor

"Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built"

Leon Uris, Writer

"To read too many books is harmful"

Mao Zedong, Leader

"Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff"

Ezra Cornell, Businessman

"I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something"

Nicholas Sparks, Author

"One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves"

Diane Wakoski, Poet

"As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character"

Matt LeBlanc, Actor

"Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people"

Larry Hagman, Actor

"Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded"

Fritz Zwicky, Scientist

"Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves"

Jesse James Garrett, Businessman

"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood"

Beverly Cleary, Author

"From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings"

Helen Hayes, Actress

"There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction"

Norton Juster, Architect

"The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Every burned book enlightens the world"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Every 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 Emerson, Philosopher

"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"The 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"

Voltaire, Writer

"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil"

Voltaire, Writer

"I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own"

Mark Twain, Author

"'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read"

Mark Twain, Author

"Books are not men and yet they stay alive"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"A 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 Beecher, Clergyman

"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books much earlier in our relationship, before I had the part"

David Carradine, Actor

"Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book"

Victor Hugo, Author

"It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life"

Victor Hugo, Author

"We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"A home without books is a body without soul"

Cicero, Philosopher

"The proper study of mankind is books"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

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