Top Books Quotes

A good title is the title of a successful book.

Cosa c’è di meglio, in realtà, che starsene la sera accanto al fuoco con un bel libro in mano, mentre il vento sbatte contro le persiane e arde il lume della lampada?

I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything; and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the mu...

I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books.

I used to think then that all the tragic events of life were written down in books and that what went on outside was just diluted crap.

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.

This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open...

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple iden...

The world of books is the wealth of being.

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall o...

A story is alive, as you and I are. It is rounded by muscle and sinew. Rushed with blood. Layered with skin, both rough and smooth. At its core lies soft marrow of hard, white bone. A story beats with...

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them.

i live on my books. on my writings, i live on my royalties: the percentage an author recieves on each sold copy. and i am proud of it. i am so even though such percentage is small or i should say irre...

You have to want the book enough to read it.

Reading is the fountain of all knowledge.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.