Top Books Quotes

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body.

I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window

I cannot perceive that you're still a girl. Ur kisses don't seem so innocent. They just drive me crazy!" #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion

Thou hast given a right judgment, but why judge thou not thyself also?

I don't know what to say about it, except that it moved me in a way one hopes to be moved each time he begins a book.

Today I am leading because yesterday I was reading.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences b

...we have, each of us, a story that is uniquely ours, a narrative arc that we can walk with purpose once we figure out what it is. It's the opposite to living our lives episodically, where each day i...

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Turner had never met a kid like Elwood before. was the word he returned to, even though the Tallahassee boy looked soft, conducted himself like a goody-goody, and had an irritating tendency to preach...

Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.

The best and most exciting kind of love is the one that's so close to the heart and so real in the mind yet, truly never exists in reality -- it keeps the heart young and the mind believing!

Iniquity shall be increased above that which now thou see, or that thou hast heard long ago.

Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.

Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight