Top Books Quotes

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

I "love" reading.It makes me feel like I am swallowing up Christ, Homer, Confucius, Newton, Franklin, Socrates, Caesar, and the whole world into one gigantic invincible Sir Moffat. Mine is creative re...

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep...

There is enough knowledge in the books to explain the existing, your knowledge must inspire what is possible.

If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

Without reading many different books, you can never leave the port of ignorance and can never obtain the peaceful mind of knowing the truth!

I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn't ravenous just for a newspaper that had no pictures of F.M. a...

Edward genially enough did not agree with what I said, but he didn't seem to admit my point, either. I wanted to press him harder so I veered close enough to the to point out that his life—the life o...

Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.

You can kill a book quicker by your silence than by a bad review.

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

Un libro leído a medias es una aventura amorosa incompleta.

Imagine for a moment that you are the proud owner of a large house which you have spent years of your life painting and decorating and filling with everything you love. It's your home. It's something...

All Authors come from the unified countrynent known as Australia. Authors live in the future where love is external.

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.

On silent moonless nights, I don't feel lonely! I have my greatest friends - my books for company!

I thought of all the summer evenings I'd spent sitting in the chairs under the trees beside the trailer, reading books that helped me escape Creek View, at least for a little while. Magical kingdoms,...

We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.

Have you thought of an ending?Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant.Oh, that won't do! Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily...