All Quotes

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
‐‐ Chanakya

Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.
‐‐ Trent Reznor

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.
‐‐ Amy Sedaris

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
‐‐ John Ruskin

Books are finished.
‐‐ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
‐‐ Susan Sontag

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
‐‐ Robert Louis Stevenson

Books are humanity in print.
‐‐ Barbara Tuchman

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.
‐‐ George Steiner

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
‐‐ B. C. Forbes

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.
‐‐ Sue Grafton

Books are like my one and only joy.
‐‐ John Lydon

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.
‐‐ Dan Savage

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
‐‐ Garson Kanin

Books are mind reading devices; they allow us free access to the thoughts and dreams of people we have never met.
‐‐ Debi Gliori

Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two 'languages.' It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
‐‐ Maria Montessori

Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
‐‐ Barry Eisler

Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way.
‐‐ Jeannette Walls

Books are my weakness.
‐‐ Dan Stevens

Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
‐‐ Kate Bernheimer

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.
‐‐ Zadie Smith

Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
‐‐ Karin Slaughter

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.
‐‐ Esther Forbes

Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren't about escaping from ourselves but expanding ourselves and finding within us the tools we need to survive.
‐‐ Matt Haig

Books are really fun because your 'voice' is pretty undiluted. There is a very direct connection between yourself and your audience. You will have an editor, but their job is to help you clarify or improve your voice, not change it.
‐‐ Liz Tuccillo

Books are sharks... because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.
‐‐ Douglas Adams

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

Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music business learned much too late.
‐‐ Tucker Max

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.
‐‐ Yann Martel

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please.
‐‐ Robert Chambers

Books are such a great way to spend time with your children, open lines of communication with your children, and just build that strong foundation.
‐‐ Victoria Osteen

Books are such quiet things - created in silence, read in silence - yet publishing a book has become a very noisy business. I've been noisy, too. I felt like I had to be in order to connect with my readers.
‐‐ Ellen Potter

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
‐‐ James Russell Lowell

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
‐‐ Robert Chambers

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
‐‐ Barbara Tuchman

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
‐‐ George William Curtis

Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
‐‐ Nate Berkus

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
‐‐ Joseph Addison

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
‐‐ Thomas Huxley

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
‐‐ Charles William Eliot

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

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

Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.
‐‐ Debi Gliori

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.
‐‐ T. C. Boyle

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.
‐‐ Michael Crichton