Top Books Quotes

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it is his adventures that are startling; they startle him because he...

Paradise will be a kind of library

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...

Literature cannot be imposed it must be discovered.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

Only a reader can understand how a book with 100 pages can be too long and one with 1000 pages can be too short.

Maslow said sex is the primary need. Does that mean pornstars spend more money in books than anyone else?

The ABC's success by Bob Proctor is one powerful book, such books are rare. Even sometimes it's hard to find a book which is based on somebody's experience... fantasy??For god sake, one drop truth whi...

DeYtH Banger is a character, who is famous because of me, who is created by me and who lives by me...

I have travel to sacred places through the pages of books.

The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social dislocation seemed to me shortsighted.... To write a book se...

Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedies into works of art. I know of nothing more astonishing or more wonderful than this transformation.

Literature is impossible, in exactly this sense: every new generation has so much 'catching up' to do that the real choice that presents itself soon is the following one: one either spends ones entire...

I don't believe in writer's block. Who can function working seven days a week at job. It's the same with writing. Take a break and let the words come to you. It rarely comes if you force it and if it...

The more you know, the more you know you know nothing.