Top Books Quotes

Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.

A story just isn't a story without a dragon.

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man wh...

Writing fiction is one of the greatest forms of empathy. It's not enough to simply write from the perspective of your characters...you have to feel what they feel.

Writers fly with imaginary wings.

Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly speaking, there is no greater teacher, no greater therapist, no greater healer of the soul, th...

Laws die books never.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Travel teaches as much as books.

Men from the mountains always dream of the sea, and above all things I love to travel.

People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come in and hijack that part of your brain that's always thinking. A good book or son...

Still. Four words.And I didn’t realize it until a couple of days ago, when someone wrote in to my blog:Dear Neil,If you could choose a quote - either by you or another author - to be inscribed on the...

The grain of evil seed had been sown in the heart of Adam from the beginning, and how much ungodliness had it brought up unto this time? and how much shall it yet bring forth until the time of threshi...

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.

Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.

reading books is great, reading pictures much better, especially those that shows you the future