Books Quotes

Ideas are cheap. Writing them into a freakin' 90k word novel is the hard part.

~ Ellie Ann

It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect.

~ Galt Niederhoffer

IF A THING IS WORTH HAVING, ITS WORTH CHEATING FOR.

~ W.c.fields

This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press.

~ Sara Sheridan

Everything shall pass way, only books will remain.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Bookshop and libraries are great celestial places to be.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If someone looks into your eyes, I read in a book one time, he'll see right into your soul. I didn't want anyone to see into my soul.

~ Patricia Reilly Giff

The books are your teacher, after and before school.

~ Deyth Banger

No book, however good, should ever be read as a task. If you do so read a book, it is very likely that you will not only get nothing out of it but that you will have toward the book and its author a repugnance that is unwarranted.

~ Burton Rascoe

To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring — read a book.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda - to complicate reading and literacy so that we will purchase its programs and materials.

~ Mike Schmoker

Life wears us down around the edges. The stress of life and its neces­sities cracks things. We learn to protect ourselves. We learn not to let so much of the world in, because some­times it’s all too much, and we don’t have the resilience we need to survive it. When we’re six, we make best friends easily. When we’re fifty, we don’t. That’s age and expe­rience for you.But books are different. We can let books in. We can wrap them up in our hearts. We can approach them as if we’re still young and open. Even so, it’s not as simple. Because we’re not as simple.(Source: State of the Writer, sort of, September 2015 - blog post)

~ Michelle Sagara

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.

~ Doris Lessing

People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

~ Neil Gaiman

This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your friends start to die, you can’t get fresh fruit in the shops.

~ Geoff Ryman

I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex.

~ Jeanette Winterson

A library at night is full of sounds: the unread books can't stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious.

~ Helen Oyeyemi

Books keep and reciprocate our secrets, dreams, regrets, and hopes better than any friend in the world.

~ Drea Damara

They're Coming.

~ Chris Mentillo

In The End, Humans Will Become Humans Own Worst Enemy.

~ Chris Mentillo

Only You Can Change Your Life. No One Can Do It For You.

~ Chris Mentillo

My parents spent countless hours teaching me to read and write. My mother was an English teacher who patiently taught me where to put my periods and commas, and my father, who loves books more than anyone I know, taught me from an early age that books are precious and should be handled gently , like butterflies.

~ Jessi Klein

Reading to me has always been like having a conversation with people who wouldn’t ask me any personal questions. Instead, they open up their own hearts and tell their secrets to me.

~ Marina Simcoe

The world is swirling with so many mysteries and secrets that nobody will ever track down all of them. But with a book you can stay up very late, reading until all the secrets are clear to you. The questions of the world are hidden forever, but the answers in a book are hiding in plain sight.

~ Lemony Snicket

…these books have their own integrity, their own identity. It is not about the words in there. You don’t need to read these books. Words are there to confuse you. They are just messing around with your mind. You have to look beyond words. There is a big secret somewhere in these books and I am going to find it. And you know that, but you are afraid to admit it. It is dangerous.

~ Stevan V. Nikolic

Information is Key to Opportunities, So Pick Up a Book!

~ Brenda Johnson Padgitt

Neither would you, had you grown up in a library of melodramatic romance novels.

~ Clementine Holzinger

Libations are for the gods. Cocktails are for mere mortals.

~ Jonathan Kieran

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

~ Jane Austen

Why do I write? Because, I am able to create wonders with a click of my keyboard. I turn my computer on, and suddenly, I’m whisked into a world full of wonder and amazement. The universe bends to my will and defies physics. But when the afternoon arrives, I must return to my duties. I leave the comfort of my home and crawl through the elementary school carpool line. When I see the brightened faces of my children, my heart flutters, and I realize I can live with a few straggling toys … as long as I can escape into the shower later.

~ Barbara Brooke

I enjoy reading books like that because it’s not at all the life I lead. It’s completely different than any situation I’ll ever be in, thank God. But I get entertainment out of it. Because as much as I like to read about a guy telling a girl she’s so, so wet for him...if anyone ever said that to me during sex, I wouldn’t be turned on by it. I would be terrified I accidentally peed on myself.'Ben laughs. 'And if you and I were having sex and you told me you owned me, I would literally crawl out from under you, put on my clothes, walk out of your house, and go puke in your front yard.

~ Colleen Hoover

Just because everyone CAN publish a book these days, doesn't mean everyone SHOULD. The world doesn't need 1000 knock-offs of 50 Shades of Grey. I'm not so sure the world even needed ONE 50 Shades of Grey.

~ Oliver Gaspirtz

Erotica is not porn. It's explicit romance.

~ Tammy-Louise Wilkins

The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long since dropped to pieces, and every semblance of print had left them. But here and there were warped boards and cracked metallic clasps that told the tale well enough. Had I been a literary man I might, perhaps, have moralized upon the futility of all ambition. But as it was, the thing that struck me with keenest force was the enormous waste of labour to which this sombre wilderness of rotting paper testified.

~ H.g. Wells

Like language, books serve to express us, but also to complete us, furnishing, through a variety of excerpted and reworked fragments, the missing elements of our personality.

~ Pierre Bayard

An extrovert looks at a stack of books and sees a stack of papers, while an introvert looks at the same stack and sees a soothing source of escape.

~ Eric Samuel Timm

Keisha Blake, whose celebrated will and focus did not leave her much room for angst, watched her friend ascend to the top deck in her new panda-eyed makeup and had a mauvais quart d'heure, wondering whether she herself had any personality at all or was in truth only the accumulation and reflection of all the things she had read in books and seen on television.

~ Zadie Smith

I lose it when I can't write. I feel sad and confused and fucked off.

~ Carla H. Krueger

When a writer dies, he becomes his books.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

Books are like horcruxes--without all the evil--because a piece of the author goes into each one.

~ Ella J. Fraser