Top 1200 Books Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will change your life.

Books don't prattle. Books don't make demands. Yet they give you everything they possess. It's a very satisfying partnership.

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.

We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

We have a generation of kids who may never see a bookshelf or never see books in houses. What are they going to think about books? How will books become meaningful in their lives except as yet another form of digitalized content? A book is not just digitalized content.

I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

I have learned that my assignment is to write books for people who do not like to read books. I really try to connect with people who are not given to spending a lot of time with an open book. Pay day to me is when somebody comes up to me and says, "I never read books but I read yours." I have a heart for that person.

I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books.

A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the 'Redwall' books.

Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.

Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.

The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place.

I have an excellent memory - for books and authors, that is. I remember all the books I've read.

Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.

I write books to influence people I will never meet. Books increase my audience and my message.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

Music and books, I think, were the two things I trusted the most as a child - songs and books.

Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.

There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.

My creator owned books sell better than my mainstream books. And that makes no sense.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.

Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short.

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar

Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.

Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times past become time present, and the whole pageantry of the world's history moves in solemn procession before our eyes, -these were to visit the firesides of the humble and lavish the treasures of the intellect upon the poor.

Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.

What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.

I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.

I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.

The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.

Personally, I don't pick books for how people think about me. I read books so I can learn.

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

Books are often far more than just books.

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

Non-fiction books have helped me enormously with lots of my books.

I've probably got about 300 books. I love collecting books.

I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.

My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.

It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.

Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.

I have copies of the books my grandfather illustrated for Scribner's in each house. I read those books all the time.

Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.

My books are published by Hachette. My books have been blacklisted and blocked on Amazon on multiple occasions.

The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.

I really got into Osho's books. I have always loved his books. They were top notch.

A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.

I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.

I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition.

I finished all the math books by third grade and most of the reading books. So I was considered disruptive.

Some of my favorite books to read are young adult books.

There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.