Quotes of: Book Keyword

Let your passion in life be as conspicuous as the devilish grin on your face.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

It’s not the win that matters so much as recognizing and respecting its value.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

The Night Circus

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.

The Namesake

Read positive books; see positive things and surround yourself with positive thinkers; life will be full with positivity.

Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

Norwegian Wood

How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

Looking for Alaska

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

Tea is certainly as much of a social drink as coffee, and more domestic, for the reason that the teacup hours are the family hours."

Little Tea Book

I miss that world from the safe distance of memory.

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.

Love, etc.

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays

A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section.

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.

Lover's Gift

That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality.

A Life In A Moment

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

The Library at Night

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

The Library at Night

In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.

The Library at Night

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

The Library at Night

I like Mr. Dickens’ books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray’s daughters.

The Last Novel

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

Letters of Benjamin Jowett, M.A. - Master Of Balliol College, Oxford