All Quotes

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

Books can be a source of solace, but I see them mainly as a source of pleasure, personal as well as esthetic.
‐‐ Michael Dirda

Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.
‐‐ Malala Yousafzai

Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.
‐‐ Bruce Jackson

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me. Books saved me. So, I do believe through stories we can learn to change, we can learn to empathize and be more connected with the universe and with humanity.
‐‐ Elif Safak

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

Books come from within.
‐‐ Kevin Henkes

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

Books do furnish a room.
‐‐ Anthony Powell

Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.
‐‐ Samuel West

Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

Books don't only furnish a room: they also make the best holiday gifts.
‐‐ Michael Dirda

Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies.
‐‐ John Updike

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.
‐‐ John Leonard

Books follow morals, and not morals books.
‐‐ Theophile Gautier

Books for teens are amazing and compelling, I think, because they're generally set in a time in people's lives when they are uncertain about who they are and who they love and what the right thing is to do.
‐‐ Sarah Rees Brennan

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
‐‐ Elizabeth Hardwick

Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world.
‐‐ Karin Slaughter

Books guided my life from high school, and the greatest, most interesting, most provocative, funniest, smartest people who ever lived in the last 200 or 300 years wrote those books. I would fall in love with Victor Hugo and read not just 'Les Miserables,' but 'Bug-Jargal' and 'The Toilers of the Sea' and so forth.
‐‐ Robert Loomis

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
‐‐ Bernard Williams

Books have always been an important part of my life.
‐‐ Jasmine Guinness

Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
‐‐ Kate Beckinsale

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
‐‐ George Henry Lewes

Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.
‐‐ Alexandra Ripley

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
‐‐ Petrarch

Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we are not alone, that we can change our circumstances and even achieve the impossible.
‐‐ Gioconda Belli

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

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

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

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
‐‐ Jim Bishop

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.
‐‐ Anthony Burgess

Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.
‐‐ David Bergen

Books is our main type of content, but we include user-generated content and will include other verticals such as scientific papers, sheet music, and comic books.
‐‐ Trip Adler

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
‐‐ Charles Caleb Colton

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

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
‐‐ George Henry Lewes

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
‐‐ Laura Hillenbrand

Books on their own aren't insanely expensive compared to other things; three large cappuccinos cost more than a paperback, and two and a half gallons of gas cost more than a paperback.
‐‐ M. J. Rose

Books provide context and allow you to think about things over time. Film is like writing haiku; there is an immense amount of pleasure in paring down and paring down. But it isn't the same.
‐‐ Geoffrey Ward

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.
‐‐ Julian Barnes

Books seem so much more - much more sacred to me, and more important and essential, than they were when I was young.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

Books should be right up there with exercise and diet as something that don't just entertain us but heal us. They tell us we are not alone and fix the pieces of us that can be shattered by reality. They are teachers, and they are friends, and we should never contemplate a world - or a life - without them.
‐‐ Matt Haig

Books should have a purpose. Books should be practical in some sense.
‐‐ Jesse Ball

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.
‐‐ Clive Barker

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
‐‐ John Denham

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.
‐‐ Stephan Jenkins