Books Quotes

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.
Anne Lamott

Writing, Tell, Write

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.
Janice Dickinson

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
Anna Quindlen

Trust, Stupid, Yourself

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.
Kinky Friedman

Made, Around, Days

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.
Philip Pullman

Time, Silence, Once

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
Thurgood Marshall

Business, Alone, May

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
William Osler

Study, Sea, While

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.
Moshe Dayan

Blame, Place, Longer

Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Quiet, Fast, Internet

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
William Ellery Channing

Life, God, Spiritual

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
Francoise Sagan

Time, Regret, Read

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
William Lyon Phelps

Love, Music, Good

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.
Naguib Mahfouz

Love, Good, Writing

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Edward Gibbon

Mind, Minds, Faithful

I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.
John Podhoretz

York, Review, Vehicle

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
Doris Lessing

Respect, Society, Learning

You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books.
Doris Lessing

Good, Two, Looking

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
Billy Joel

Boxing, Kid, York

I love my books.
Elizabeth Edwards

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
Saint Bernard

Find, Learn, Teach

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.
Laurence Sterne

Learn, Serve, Using

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
Oscar Levant

Mind, Find, Off

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
Lope de Vega

Live, Envy, Few

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.
Michael Bloomberg

Thought, Laws, Contempt

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.
Leslie Fiedler

Between, Often, Novel

Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.
Leslie Fiedler

Black, Become, She

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.
William Glasser

Teacher, School, Help

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.
Christina Ricci

Bring, Childhood, Magic

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.
Vivienne Westwood

Fashion, Last, Read

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.
Vivienne Westwood

Experience, Read

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