Quotes of: Books Keyword

I love book books, real books, books with spines and heart, dust jackets, books that smell of books. Take the frame from a painting and you have a painting, not art. Take the pages from a book and print them on a screen and you have the ghost of a bo...

Katie in Love

Books on the bookshelves And stacked on the floor Books kept in baskets And propped by the door Books in neat piles And in disarray Books tucked in closets And books on display Books filling crannies And books packed in nooks Books massed in windows ...

L.R. Knost

I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, bo...

C.S. Lewis

Some people read books on musicians, while I read music books. Not books on music, but literally books full of sheet music. Fascinating reading.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

A good book praises itself.

German

I went through and underlined all the funny lines in his book, and by the time I was done, I had underlined his whole book. That would be great if he wrote a humor book, rather than a book on investing.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Every work cancels the dark. Every work is a hymn from the other side of memory to a memory that is spellbound. Beauty is death's gift to vulgar life so that it can live in beauty.

The Book of Questions: Volume I [I. The Book of Questions, II. The Book of Yukel, III. Return to the Book]

Lynda: [concerning Annie] The only reason she baby sits is to have a place for... Laurie: [realizing she had forgot something] Shit. Annie Brackett: I have a place for *that*! Laurie: I forgot my chemistry book. Lynda: So who cares? I always forget m...

Halloween

My father never put a book into my hands and never forbade a book. Instead, he let me roam and graze, making my own more or less appropriate selections. I read gory tales of historic heroism that nine-teenth century parents were suitable for children...

The Thirteenth Tale

I’m an open book—an open book I’m still writing and editing. My book is a romance novel, sort of like The Secret.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

You must feel it from within. You must want to write the book. You must desire to write the book

The Book Within You: The Aspiring Author's Guide to Bringing the Book Within You, Out

There are books for when you're bored. Plenty of them. There are books for when you're calm. The best kind, in my opinion. There are also books for when you're sad. And there are books for when you're happy. There are books for when you're thirsty fo...

Love

I had the 'War of the Worlds' comic book. I had lots of comic books.

Roky Erickson

By reading older books we get a taste of the conversation of Heaven.

The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information

There are only two kinds of books worth keeping: Valuable books and valuable books. The first value is monetary, and the second value is mind-expanding capability.

This Book Has No Title

I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.

Neil Gaiman

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pa...

The Books in My Life

We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries.

This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

This is a book. It is a book I found in a box. I found the box in the attic. The box was in the attic, under the eaves. The attic was hot and still. The air was stale with dust. The dust was from old pictures and books. The dust in the air was made u...

P. Harding

Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people's books, one's own books - it does not matter whose or where. Simply to be among books, glancing at one here...

Aidan Chambers