Books Quotes

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
William Osler

Read, Simpler, Buy

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
William Cowper

Learning, Heart, May

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
Umberto Eco

Life, Nature, Time

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace Thackeray

History, Down, Thoughts

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.
Desiderius Erasmus

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
Joseph Joubert

Great, Men, Live

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.
Max Muller

Morning, True, Simple

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

Live, Envy, Few

Read much, but not many books.
Gustave Flaubert

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
Isabel Allende

Heart, Ask, Rules

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
Emile M. Cioran

Write, Anyone, Dare

I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too.
Tom Felton

Used, Kid, Goosebumps

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Ezra Pound

Life, Men, Deep

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.
Terry Pratchett

Work, Writing, Hard

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
Stephen Covey

Technology, Find, Fact

I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.
Kevin Bacon

Movies, Read, Watching

I am not a fan of books.
Kanye West

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
William Ellery Channing

Best, Wise, Mind

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
Wole Soyinka

Truth, Writing, Wish

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
Peter Ustinov

Life, Person, Understand

If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.
William Shatner

Tomorrow, Read, Star

No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.
Michael J. Fox

Love, Learning, Today

My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.
Martin Scorsese

School, Parents, House

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
Sam Levenson

Parents, Him, Two

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Salman Rushdie

Act, Choose, Creation

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
Jeanette Winterson

Alone, Live, Pictures

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.
Christopher Hitchens

Family, Home, Nice

Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful - those stories, they're just incredible.
Jessica Brown Findlay

Laugh, Friends, Young

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.
Dean Koontz

Give, Sometimes, Rather

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.
Ang Lee

Important, Kids, Read

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