Books Quotes

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.

I love books.

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.

At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists.

I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

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.

I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.

It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

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

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look.

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.

My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics.

I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

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