Read much, but not many books.
Gustave Flaubert

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.
Helmut Newton

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Ray Bradbury

The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas Carlyle

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
Raymond Chandler

We cannot learn men from books.
Benjamin Disraeli

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
Benjamin Disraeli

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Benjamin Disraeli

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.
Nicholas Sparks

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.
Nicholas Sparks

Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.
Nicholas Sparks

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Bono

I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.
Megan Fox

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
Susan Sontag

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
Alain de Botton

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
Alain de Botton