Books Quotes

Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Die, Often

I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.
Ralph Fiennes

She, Characters, Admire

People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling as very one-dimensional in the first few books, because you're supposed to hate him.
Tom Felton

Hate, Character, Nothing

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
Cesar Chavez

Education, Best, Book

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.
Terry Pratchett

Science, Real, Enough

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

Greatest, Person, Give

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
J. Paul Getty

Through, Value, Chief

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
Camille Paglia

Life, Human, Reality

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Water, Drink, Dogs

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
Michael Caine

Mad, Read, Influence

I regret all of my books.
Zora Neale Hurston

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

Forgotten, Remembered, None

There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.
Tom Felton

Write, Reading, Fishing

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
Louis Aragon

Thought, Rules, Head

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.
Madeleine Albright

Government, Normal, Worked

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Paul Valery

Fire, Same, Weather

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots.
Terry Pratchett

End, Book, Matter

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.
Terry Pratchett

Time, Book, Advice

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.'
Terry Pratchett

Mean, Same, Become

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.'
Terry Pratchett

Done, Thought, She

I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.
Alanis Morissette

Music, Writing, Writer

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Bell Hooks

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
Lord Chesterfield

Men, Knowledge, Learning

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Alan Paton

Men, Wisdom, Wise

I don't read books much.
LeBron James

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
Ramakrishna

Good, Holy, Reading

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.
Liam Neeson

God, Reading, Absence

I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.
Emma Watson

Time, Book, Place

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Norman Mailer

Men, Writing, Closest

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
T. E. Lawrence

Test, Taught, Irrational

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