Books Quotes

We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Teaching others, he corrected himself.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

We need knew knights, but without swords.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

How does one say something new and not retell?

~ Dejan Stojanovic

He thought others were small, that was his greatness.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

~ Dejan Stojanovic

His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Now that we are all so smart, we don’t easily find resolutions.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Wherever there is somebody else, a war is not far away.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Say No! Accept the burdens of revenge.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. -- William Styron (born June 11 1925)

~ William Styron

The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark out places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. I can see it in you, sure as I see it in me. You're a daughter of words. A girl with a story to tell.

~ Jay Kristoff

With every line he teaches her, the world grows a little wider. She had never known before how words could sing,how a turn of phrase could unlock a window in her mind.

~ Rosamund Hodge

Books are something which by the words breaths when you stop writing it stops it's own proccess = breathing..

~ Deyth Banger

The greatest thing about writing is that you get to shape more than one life.

~ Katja Michael

I like to think of books as lovers; you have to introduce yourself slowly to them, read them one page at a time. Notice them, appreciate them. Respect what they're trying to tell you, let their words caress you, then sink into you, and finally, become a part of you.

~ Stacie Hammond

When I sit down and write, I do it to relieve myself of the madness that burdens me so that new words can wrap me in newer, better, madness.

~ George Ivanovic

He claimed he had read the book so many times that the words had fallen out of it and the pages were all blank so he had to read the book to put the words back in or the book would be forlorn and naked.

~ Brian Doyle

O, let my books be then the eloquenceAnd dumb presagers of my speaking breast;Who plead for love, and look for recompense,More than that tongue that more hath more express'd.O, learn to read what silent love hath writ:To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.

~ William Shakespeare

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

Writing's much more romantic when its pen and ink and paper. It's... More timeless. and worthwhile. Think about it. There are so many words gushing out into the universe these days. All digitally. All in Comic Sans or Times New Roman. Silly Websites. Stupid news stories digitally uploaded to a 24-hour channel. Where's all this writing going? Who's keeping a note of it all? Who's in charge of deciding what's worthwhile and what isn't? But back then... Back then, if someone wanted to write something they had to buy paper. Buy it! And ink. And a pen. And they couldn't waste too many sheets cos it was expensive. So when people wrote, they wrote because it was worthwhile... not just because they had some half-baked idea and they wanted to pointlessly prove their existence by sharing it on some bloody social networking site.

~ Holly Bourne

The church trembled and the hail hammered the roof, but his words glided in the air, joyful and bright like the birds at the cliffs. They floated freely around one another without colliding and the wind carried them high up into heaven.

~ Fridik Erlings

The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.

~ Michelle Moran

For a long time, she sat and saw.She had seen her brother die with one eye open, on still in a dream. She had said goodbye to her mother and imagined her lonely wait for a train back home to oblivion. A woman of wire had laid herself down, her scream traveling the street, till it fell sideways like a rolling coin starved of momentum. A young man was hung by a rope made of Stalingrad snow. She had watched a bomber pilot die in a metal case. She had seen a Jewish man who had twice given her the most beautiful pages of her life marched to a concentration camp. And at the center of all of it, she saw the Fuhrer shouting his words and passing them around.Those images were the world, and it stewed in her as she sat with the lovely books and their manicured titles. It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words.

~ Markus Zusak

After all, when you come across the word prothalamium and find it means a preliminary nuptial song and a yaffle is a green woodpecker-well, I ask you! You cannot let matters rest there-or can you? Peradventure you will develop into lexicomaniacs.

~ E. Norman Torry

There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.

~ Christian Rudder

We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not some books continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, and cities have been decayed and demolished?

~ Francis Bacon

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

The words you can't find, you borrow.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy fitting what I saw with appropriate words; when I sat by the roadside, I would either read or a pencil and a penny version-book would be in my hand, to note the features of the scene or commemorate some halting stanzas. Thus I lived with words.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

there comes a time in life, when you realize that everything is a dream; only those things which are written down have any possibility of being real.

~ James Salter

He found himself in a room not unlike the shop. All books again, packed tight on shelves or laying in piles on every surface. It was a cozy room, for all that ; it smelled of warm, rich words and very deep thoughts.

~ Jenny Nimmo

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.

~ Jose Luis Borges

Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe

~ Aldous Huxley

I want to say more, but don't know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable night time conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no room in the air.

~ David Levithan