Top 1200 Used Books Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.

I remember when I was younger, we used to read the Goosebumps books that were absolutely terrifying.

I used to say that if I could get paid to read books, my life would be made.

I read books when I was a kid, lots of books. Books always seemed like magic to me. They took you to the most amazing places. When I got older, I realized that I couldn't find books that took me to all of the places I wanted to go. To go to those places, I had to write some books myself.

I used to read Gore Vidal books and think I was cool.

In books I find the dead as if they were alive; in books I foresee things to come; in books warlike affairs are set forth; from books come forth the laws of peace. All things are corrupted and decay in time; Saturn ceases not to devour the children that he generates; all the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'

I don't write huge books any more. I used to write 1,000 printed pages, but now I write short books. I did one on Napoleon, 50,000 words - enjoyed doing that. He was a baddie. I did one on Churchill, which was a bestseller in New York, I'm glad to say. 50,000 words. He was a goodie.

I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet.

I used to write reviews for 'Artbomb.' Our policy was to only cover books we loved and recommended.

Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.

There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one's mind and alter one's whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later.

People start panicking because they think it's the end of everything. But the fact is, you know, books survived movies; books survived TV. Books are surviving manga and anime. Books will always be there in one form or another. You just have a larger palette of entertainment options.

I've always loved reading, and as a child I used to try desperately to write books like the ones I read.

There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

Every generation likes to think that children don't read as much as they used to when they were young! You listen to some adults saying they were going around reading 'Ulysses' when they were seven or eight! I think children are voracious readers if you give them the right books and if you make those books accessible to them.

To the question of writing at all we have sometimes been counselled to forget it, or rather the writing of books. What is required, we are told, is plays and films. Books are out of date! The book is dead, long live television! One question which is not even raised let alone considered is: Who will write the drama and film scripts when the generation that can read and write has been used up?

The nice thing about genetics is, I can see my kids doing what I used to do, which is inhaling books like breathing.

Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.

As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them. I still do. I continue to do what I did as a child; dream of books, make books and collect books.

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.

I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from a biography to a classic - to me every week and ask me to write a piece on what I thought about it. On the other hand, my mother used to love reading thrillers and bestsellers.

I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration books.

Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it.

I used to envy people who had written books, the way I think women envy other women who've had babies. I was resentful, shy, and inhibited around people who had written books. They'd done things I wanted to do.

I'm not much of a cook. I used to keep books in my gas oven - until someone told me it was a fire hazard.

Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical selves and what reading releases from their hieroglyphic pages, in their sight and smell, in their touch and feel to the questing hand, and in the intellectual music which they sing to the thoughtful brain and loving heart, books are to me the best of all symbols, the realest of all reality.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

I remember that I used to get lots of books from the library, and 'Little Women' was one of them. And I used to just cross out the parts of it that really upset me because it's such a sad book in so many ways. I'd cross out the parts that upset me, and I would rewrite new endings.

Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing.

I remember, when I was a child and wrote poems in little clasped books, I used to kiss the books and put them away tenderly because I had been happy near them, and take them out by turns when I was going from home, to cheer them by the change of air and the pleasure of the new place. This, not for the sake of the verses written in them, and not for the sake of writing more verses in them, but from pure gratitude.

You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.

I used to buy scented poetry books on tour and read aloud to the band. Not what you'd expect, huh?

Doing simple flip books, I used to get such a kick out of it, just drawings and nothing else.

Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.

There are scenes from books I'm happy with. I tend to think my books are all broken. But then my favourite reads are almost always books that don't, in the end, pull off what they set out to do.

I definitely don't write with any kind of 'message' or 'lesson,' probably because when I was a child, I used to run a mile from books like that.

We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title books), and you have time to do more than that during the school year.

My brother and I used to collect comic books in San Francisco.

I used to read a lot of books and magazines about Dracula.

I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books.

There are books all around me... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.

I read a lot of books for information, like doctor books, spy books. . . .

Nobody had books at home. My dad was a very educated person, so he would have books at home. All Spanish books. That helped. Most of my homies had no books at home.

I used to be pro-choice."..."I was once pro-choice and the thing that changed my mind was, I read my husband's biology books, medical books, and what I learned . . . At the moment of conception, a life starts. And this life has its own unique set of DNA, which contains a blueprint for the whole genetic makeup. The sex is determined. We know there's a life because it's growing and changing.

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

We used to say a movie could never come close to a book, but no one reads books anymore.

I used to think that when I finished a book, I was finished with it. But it's like a wonderful Hydra. Every time a head disappears, more heads appear, so I will be writing for the rest of my life. The more books I write, the more books I find that I still have to write about. I use it like an inspiration, and that's wonderful.

Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.

Boys do not evaluate a book. They divide books into categories. There are sexy books, war books, westerns, travel books, science fiction. A boy will accept anything from a section he knows rather than risk another sort. He has to have the label on the bottle to know it is the mixture as before.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy The books that people talk about we never can recall And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.

I used to walk in a bookstore and see all these books on the walls. And I would say, 'Who wants to hear from me? What do I have to add to all of this?'