Books Quotes

I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Books are the immortality of the race, the father and mother of most that is worth while cherishing in our hearts. To spread good books about, to sow them on fertile minds, to propagate understanding and a carefulness of life and beauty, isn't that high enough mission for a man?

~ Christopher Morley

Quinns always come at half price, about half the time, and half-naked, even during the colder half of winter. A Quinn is like a queen, but draggier, and cheaper to buy and use for personal gain, unless you’re suspicious that you’re poor and illiterate like Jarod Kintz, in which case Quinns could be the spirits of your dead relatives, come to haunt you until you gather a massive fortune through selling books on the internet, to send some back in time through a portal you bought from the NSA, so they would have lived better lives without having to move a finger for their fortune. Oh, yah, and since they aren’t - they’re blue, like smurfs, yet they turn purple whenever tickled on the belly, which is something they seem to rather dislike, since they start biting and scratching when it happens, for no good reason, I might add.

~ Will Advise

It was a high ceilinged room with tall, large-panes windows. Apart from the doorway was the desk where book had been checked out in days when books were still being checked out. He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet's intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing.

~ Richard Matheson

The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.

~ Marcel Theroux

Orphan could no longer hear or see the shadows of the dead. He didn't think they had perished. Most likely they were hiding now, somewhere in this landscape of books.

~ Lavie Tidhar

Your story must told.Live a life legacy- written book or notes.This will be there for many generations to know your rich experiences and knowledge.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)

~ Horace

There are some laws that are coded into the very nature of the universe, and one is: There Is Never Enough Shelf Space.

~ Terry Pratchett

He balanced in space with the book in his sweating cold fingers.

~ Ray Bradbury

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

~ Guy Gavriel Kay

Because, as I would always tell myself so many years later, lying here in my bed: You can't start out again in life, that's a carriage ride you only take once, but with a book in your hand, no matter how confusing and perplexing it might be, once you've finished it, you can always go back to the beginning; if you like, you can read it through again, in order to figure out what you couldn't understand before, in order to understand life, isn't that so, Fatma?

~ Orhan Pamuk

Of course, of course. Drugs, music, a new age dawning … and you came for an old book.

~ Robin Sloan

Books and knowledge are the two most powerful drugs.

~ Meghan Blistinsky

Books can break a man open, even ones about a panda, maybe especially so.

~ Gregory Sherl

Look upon good books; they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself...and you shall need no other comfort nor counsel.

~ Francis Bacon

A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend.

~ Douglas Jerrod

Found in trees. Sometimes also in old silent movie theaters, seaside zoos, magic shops, hat shops, time-travel shops, topiary gardents, cowboy boots, castle turrets, comet museums, dog pounds, mermaid ponds, dragon lairs, library stacks (the ones in the back), piles of leaves, piles of pancakes, the belly of a fiddle, the bell of a flower, or in the company of wild herds of typewriters. But mostly in trees.

~ Michelle Cuevas

Orma moved a pile of books off a stool for me but seated himself directly on another stack. This habit of his never ceased to amuse me. Dragons no longer hoarded gold; Comonot's reforms had outlawed it. For Orma and his generation, knowledge was treasure. As dragons through the ages had done, he gathered it and then he sat on it.

~ Rachel Hartman

Of all the comforting objects in this world, few things are as reassuring and accepting as books.

~ Drea Damara

There’s always books. And the wind through trees.

~ Anna Jae

I'll just say right here that whoever thought up the idea of paying dead white authors by the word should have a special place in hell with the rest of the sadists.

~ Heather W. Petty

I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything, and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates.

~ Sarah Vowell

Most people don't read books, but when they do, mine are the first, and that's enough for me.

~ Daniel Marques

Well, let me try again,' he said. 'If it be true, and no doubt it is, that the proper study of mankind is man, it is also true that man is best studied in the books that he has written about himself; and all books, whatever their subject matter, are in essence autobiographical... Wherefore, it is clear - or is it? - that writers of books are what I have called them, the most fascinating people in the world.

~ Peter Ruber

The burning point of paper was the moment where I knew that I would have to remember this. Because people would have to remember books, if other people burn them or forget them. We will commit them to memory. We will be come them. We become authors. We become their books.

~ Neil Gaiman

One of the most difficult things when you were trying to navigate the world of books was dealing with all the unreliable authors. They were so unbelievably tricky to keep track of. An author might write a brilliant book, only to follow it up with something utterly mediocre. Or, and this was almost worse, one might have written a brilliant book but then turn out to be dead. Then there were those authors who started a series but never finished it.

~ Katarina Bivald

Books are the most important of all my possessions. They capture the thoughts, feelings, dreams and lives of their authors, welcoming us into their worlds and inspiring us to emulate their adventures.

~ Fennel Hudson

I like to read books one after another. Immerse myself in a book, and then immerse myself in the next book, and just keep going until there aren't any more books left to swim in. That's why I hate when authors die. I cannot stand it. There will be no more books forthcoming from that person. Their future books died with them. In the past I have found a series of books and loved it so much that all I wanted to do was read and read and read those books for the rest of my life. Then I would find out that the author was dead. Had in fact been dead for many a year. This has happened to me several times.

~ Alison Mcghee

As an author the question I get asked the most is, “why do you write?” My knee jerk response is, “Because I love it,” which is true, but not the whole truth. So here is my revised response to that question; “I write for the thirteen year old me who hated reading and craved something different than the boring literature I was forced to read for school. I write to see something I want to read exist in the world. I write because it becomes unbearable to hold so many stories in my head without a way to express them, but most importantly, I write to be true to myself.

~ Day Parker

Seriously, when you see a new book fresh on the stand and in big letters it says “A Million Copies Sold,” did you ever wonder who bought them?

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

I’m contemplating if book sales and promotions can actually be rigged like so many other things in our everyday lives?

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

... in art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

The only thing in life that's really interesting is the contest. We are all contestants--whether we admit it or not. If I read 20 pages of a book and they're no good, I put it down. Maybe it's good after 100 pages, but I can't wait. The author lost.

~ Lee Marvin

And you will not hurt him anymore. Not one of you. Because I am his protector. His rear guard. I am his -Tara Reese

~ Lucian Bane

An authors publication date never matters, a book not read yet will always be New...

~ Catherine Townsend-Lyon

Hard core authors are determined about their craft, and they know that building a brand entails hard work. They eat, breathe and live their writing.:

~ Geraldine Solon

This is the best time to be an author.

~ Geraldine Solon

An Authorpreneur focuses on establishing one's brand to the consumer using different avenues to promote their work.

~ Geraldine Solon

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

~ Aberjhani