Top Books Quotes

I can understand now why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recentl...

It is rather whenWe gloriously forget ourselves, and plungeSoul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound,Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth--'Tis then we get the right good from a book.

The best feeling in the world might be when you finish a book and you get to pick out another.

There are books written to be read.There are books written to be sold.The first ones have the soul and lessons you need.The second ones are just plain, empty, and cold.

Instead, I read books in the library, huddling on a bean bag in a corner and getting lost in somebody else's victories and troubles. I never had much time for fiction before. I preferred real life. Ma...

If I knew your thoughts, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you who you are. By changing our thoughts, we can change our lives.

There are so many wonderful places created in my mind simply from the books I have read, I have been transported to some unforgettable, magic places but there are so many more I wish to visit and so l...

I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.

Reading books would be boring if you lack imagination...

Just imagine if you took all the money you've spent on these things and traveled around the world with it, instead, or bought books and read them. Think about how much you would know about life.

A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere near the third rib: there ought to be a heart beating in it. A story that's all forehead doesn't amo...

There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.

The only way that your work will truly find an audience is if it is genuine.

It's true that we, writers, write (create) books, but eventually, a good book gives birth to a good, established writer.

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

If a book is worth reading at all it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants designed to take your breath away when the brain and heart crave to linger in nobler enjoyme...

To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

A good book has no ending.

Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book!