Books Quotes

We all shuffle our own deck in life ... The deck is our brain, the cards are our thoughts, the results we get will determine if we are giving ourselves a fair deal. Do you have an authentic dealer?

~ Michael Levy

When you find that one book, that one that makes you tingle. It's almost like you found a little piece of magic.

~ Carmela Dutra

A good book is like a stream, with which we can flow slowly, playfully, it lets us savor the joy of weaving the magic of lovely thoughts, revealing the secrets of life with beautiful words.

~ Balroop Singh

Learning and reading will enrich your life with wisdom for living.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Daily reading is a sacred knowledge.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

For peace read books, for success read books and take actions.

~ Amit Kalantri

If you don't find a good teacher, find a good book.

~ Amit Kalantri

Today I am leading because yesterday I was reading.

~ Amit Kalantri

Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.

~ Amit Kalantri

You must go to the school or to the books or on the field because knowledge doesn't come to you, you must go to the knowledge.

~ Amit Kalantri

I can lend you my money not my books.

~ Amit Kalantri

I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper.

~ Amit Kalantri

Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they don't read much.

~ Amit Kalantri

There is enough knowledge in the books to explain the existing, your knowledge must inspire what is possible.

~ Amit Kalantri

People come to me for the solution of their problem, if my knowledge and experience is not enough to solve the problem, I go to my library read the relevant book and provide the solution.

~ Amit Kalantri

Children read their favorite books to death, she said. They are careless in their devotions. They rip the pages, scribble, and spill things on them. And they are demon book thieves.

~ Jean Nathan

Never go down to the darkest room. Stay far away from the rotting coffin. If you want to live through the night, let the devil sleep.

~ John Verdon

When a child keeps asking you to tell him/her a story, what they instinctively really want to know is their true purpose and mission in life. Sadly, this knowledge was never sought out by their parents, and explains why children's books are a very hot and lucrative industry. Instead of telling your child how to become a compassionate citizen of the world, or how to live a meaningful existence by being a positive asset to humanity, you are conditioned by society to simply read your kid a fairytale.

~ Suzy Kassem

...that the decline in reading among children was largely the fault of their parents. Parents these days don't read books, themselves, but they feel they should make their children read. Since they aren't readers, however, they have no idea what to give their children. That's why they cling to the recommendations from the Ministry of Education. Those books are all insufferably boring and, as a result, the kids learn to hate books. It's a vicious cycle with no end in sight.

~ Keigo Higashino

It’s a heck of a responsibility to look after a spirit. So give kids the best of who you are. That’s the most you can ever do.

~ Carew Papritz

There are two things that grant a bit of immortality: books and children

~ Tiziano Terzani

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

~ Jackie Kennedy

As a children’s minister, I always believed that I was an evangelist, and at the end of the book, there’s a simple prayer that, whoever’s reading the book could accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior

~ Soraya Diase Coffelt

Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.

~ Sarah Jio

Literature has the ability to open up a whole new world to children, but we need to have a share in helping them to find that door and open it with them. Let’s set the example and help to foster this love of reading in our little ones.

~ Carmela Dutra

Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.

~ Peggy A. Borel

It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.

~ Pat Frank

Every time a written word is put to page it is the opportunity to expand our minds, whether we are the writer or the reader. Enjoy the journey wherever it may take you!

~ K. Lamb

We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.

~ V.c. Andrews

When Molly O'Toole was looking at the colored pictures in Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's big dictionary and just happened to be eating a candy cane at the same time and drooled candy cane juice on the colored pictures of gems and then forgot and shut the book so the pages all stuck together, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle didn't say, Such a careless little girl can never ever look at the colored pictures in my dictionary again. Nor did she say, You must never look at books when you are eating. She said, Let's see, I think we can steam those pages apart, and then we can wipe the stickiness off with a little soap and water, like this-now see, it's just as good as new. There's nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

~ Betty Macdonald

Great characters- They are pivotal for a great plot. THEN a solid plot: Why then? If you do not have great characters it is impossible to create a good plot, nonetheless a solid one. Once you have built great characters for the scenes, there you have it. It’s just like the movies, you cannot have a great film if the characters are frail and their lines are weak as well. I guess great world-building comes along with a good plot. If there is something that will work fine in a novel is how you will develop from the theme. You’ve got to establish a good timeline, and from there it comes a world. You see the technical matters don’t match or matter as much to me. Even a poorly written story, if there is a good plot and great characters on it will make a divine combination There are simply many cases of it over the mainstream and that even reached the big screen.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Because zombies can’t go out into the sun, most of them tend to be afraid of anything that can go into the sun and live to tell the tale.

~ M.c. Steve

Instead, I read books in the library, huddling on a bean bag in a corner and getting lost in somebody else's victories and troubles. I never had much time for fiction before. I preferred real life. Mathematics. Solutions. Things that actually have a bearing on my life. But I can understand now why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud. I want to reach into the page and tell the characters that I understand them, that they are not alone, that I'm not alone, that it's okay to feel like this. And then the lunch bell rings the book closes and I'm plunged back into reality.

~ Cecelia Ahern

When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories.

~ S.a. Tawks

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself.

~ S.a. Tawks

Sometimes surviving is all you can do

~ Emilee King

Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are bad enough, but all that ruddy fiction! Hero goes on a journey, stranger comes to town, somebody wants something, they get it or they don't, will is pitted against will. Admire me, for I am a metaphor.

~ David Mitchell

My spirit has been around far longer than my soul--I've lived several lifetimes already. And one this novel has been written, I will have lived several more.

~ Terry A. O'neal