Books Quotes

Remember, a book is always a gift.

~ Sheridan Hay

There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others…

~ Chris Geiger

She sighed and looked at him sympathetically. 'Cool flame tricks aside, there's no competition.'He lifted his eyebrow. 'Library wins?''Every single time.

~ Elizabeth Hunter

A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.

~ Nicholaa Spencer

My friend says she's smart. She reads a book to fall asleep.

~ Nicholaa Spencer

Stop worshiping the bad in boys and start recognizing the good in men

~ Kerry E. Wagner

A good response beats a bad reaction any day. Be encouraged

~ Kerry E. Wagner

Intercourse is one thing, Intimacy is everything. Be encouraged

~ Kerry E. Wagner

One of the smartest things one can do in life sometimes…is play stupid. Be encouraged

~ Kerry E. Wagner

Just because you start attempting to do right, doesn’t mean people will let you forget about what you’ve done wrong…Be encouraged

~ Kerry E. Wagner

It wouldn’t matter if he was a bad boy , if you got rid of your bad habit. Be encouraged

~ Kerry E. Wagner

Only that 'holy' book which teaches you to love all beings - animals or human things - read. Another one, idiots do, You let go, God speed.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she just wants to switch off. I think we can agree that that's creepy as hell.

~ Max Barry

If books/stories and movies are going to be judge as for the personality of people so... Doctor Sleep and Nightmares and Dreamscapes... should make Stephen King the world top1 insane person, ever lived in the world.

~ Deyth Banger

These were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them were cast aside.

~ John Connolly

We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are libraries.

~ Neil Gaiman

Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned.

~ Criss Jami

Books measure time in both moments and years. We all grow old but the stories never will.

~ R.m. Engelhardt (Talon)

Stories can start revolutions.

~ Katherine Rundell

It's inhuman to take your books away before you know the end.

~ Katherine Rundell

I love books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

She strolled between shelves, looking at titles, smiling as she met old friends - books she had read three times or five times or a dozen. Just a title, or an author's name, would be enough to summon up happy images. Strange creatures like phoenixes and psammeads, moving under smokey London daylight of a hundred years before, in company with groups of bemused children; starships and new worlds and the limitless vistas of interstellar night, outer space challenged but never conquered; princesses in silver and golden dresses, princes and heroes carrying swords like sharpened lines of light, monsters rising out of weedy tarns, wild creatures that talked and tricked one another...

~ Diane Duane

A story is a map of the world. A gloriously colored and wonderful map, the sort one often sees framed and hanging on the wall in a study full of plush chairs and stained-glass lamps: painstakingly lettered, researched down to the last pebble and participle, drawn with dash and flair, with cloud-goddesses in the corners and giant squid squirming up out of the sea...[T]here are more maps in the world than anyone can count. Every person draws a map that shows themselves at the center.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

No two stories are the same. They may seem the same at first glance, but, once you take a closer look, give the story some of your time, you realise its unique qualities.

~ S.a. Tawks

I don’t want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.

~ Ashwin Sanghi

On a cloudy day, when the dim dance of the firelight and the warmth of the sconces are not enough, the books shed their own form of light. By the hundreds, they fill the shelves that stretch across every inch of exposed wall. They rise up to the ceiling, warriors of an impenetrable army, encircling my over-sized armchair and keeping me safe as they whisper their stories softly in my ear.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

Where books had been a comfort before, they became a necessity, old books best of all: thick heavy tomes with stories that spread and twisted through other worlds, where he could walk like a ghost in the footsteps of other lives.

~ Alexia Casale

These days, we've got booksellers in cities, in deserts, and in the middle of a rain forest; we've got travelling bookshops, and bookshops underground. We've got bookshops in barns, in caravans and in converted Victorian railway stations. We've even got booksellers selling books in the middle of a war. Are bookshops still relevant? They certainly are.All bookshops are full of stories, and stories want to be heard.

~ Jen Campbell

I have wandered many roads that I have never traveled; touched many things that my eyes have never seen. It is through stories that life is made, and through stories that life is saved.

~ James Avery Fuchs

But here's a great thing about stories: they can be retold.

~ Christine Heppermann

She had forced herself to learn to read – picked up bits and pieces, here and there, from the very few teachers who had been patient with her; from looking at words while out and about; from television, and from friends. And to avoid the shouting and drug-induced moaning, and the row of male visitors her mum would entertain, she would barricade herself in her room – there'd been no lock – and lose herself in books.

~ Dianna Hardy

Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page

~ Cornelia Funke

You have to be careful what you write and not allow self righteousness to cloud your ability to be objective. This story is not about you, it's about people and things that no one else sees. The truth will at times come to you in a blur, unclear, unsettling refusing to leave until you figure out its relevance.

~ Crystal Evans

If I am alive this is my book, and my father lives now in the afterlife that is a book, a thing not vague or virtual but something you can hold and feel and smell because to my mind heaven like life must be a thing sensual and real. And my book will be a river and have the Salmon literal and metaphoric leaping inside it and be called History of the Rain, so that his book does not perish, and you will know my book exists because of him and because of his books and his aspiration to leap up, to rise. You will know that I found him in his books, in the covers his hands held, the pages they turned, in the paper and the print, but also in the worlds those books contained, where now I have been and you have been too. You will know the story goes from the past to the present and into the future, and like a river flows.

~ Niall Williams

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

~ Steven Millhauser

I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down.

~ Mizuki Nomura

Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.

~ Patricia C. Wrede

I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I want to tell a story.

~ Audrey Niffenegger

There wasn't a place I could think of that was more magical than a building bursting with books and stories and words...

~ Lindsay Eland

The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her.

~ Mary Papas