Top Books Quotes

Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.

I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature.

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and wi...

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

The books you have read and the knowledge and inspiration you have gained can never be taken away from you.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us that we would not have known how to enter, its role in our lives is salutary....

I build my world with the pages of a book.

Passion for books is pleasurable.

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of wh...

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.