Book Quotes - Page 8

• Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

  Ruth Rendell

  Reading, Life Is, Literacy

  Ruth Rendell (2000). “A Judgement in Stone”, Vintage

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• Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

  Anne Lamott

  Mean, Community, Who We Are

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.15, Anchor

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• The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

  James Bryce

  Life Lesson, Reading, Writing

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• Books, the children of the brain.

  Jonathan Swift

  Inspirational, Children, Brain

  Jonathan Swift (2011). “Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings”, p.372, Bantam Classics

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• Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

  Julian Barnes

  Life, Thinking, People

  Flaubert's Parrot ch. 13 (1984)

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• A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

  David Mitchell

  Reading

  David Mitchell (2007). “Number9Dream: A Novel”, p.365, Random House

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• Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change, windows on the world, and (as a poet has said) "lighthouses erected in the sea of time." They are companions , teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Teacher, Humanity, Mind

  "The Book: A Lecture Sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors' League of America, Presented at the Library of Congress October 17, 1979".

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• That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Funny, Reading, Expectations

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• A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

  Franz Kafka

  Sea, Library, Frozen

  Letter to Oskar Pollak, 27 Jan. 1904

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• If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Inspirational, Funny, Space

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish it. Third, they think somebody's going to read it. Fourth, they think somebody's going to like it. How optimistic is that?

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Optimistic, Thinking

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• Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Following the Equator ch. 25, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Reading Literature, Morality

  The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

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• I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

  John Adams

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Letter to Abigail Adams, www.masshist.org. December 28, 1794.

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• Laws die, books never.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Reading, Law, Dies

  "Richelieu" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Act I, scene 2, 1839.

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• When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Reading, Library, Cards

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• A good title is the title of a successful book.

  Raymond Chandler

  Inspiration, Successful, Titles

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.75, Grove Press

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• A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Reading, Drunk, May

  Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.178, University of Illinois Press

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• Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Idlers, Way, Good Enough

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• Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Reading, Generations

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.69, Graphic Arts Books

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• Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out Among the giant fossils of my past, Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, pulling through the gap, In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, The first book first. And how I felt it beat Under my pillow, in the morning’s dark, An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Morning, Father, Dark

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1998). “Aurora Leigh”, p.103, OUP Oxford

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• After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

  Philip Pullman

  Writing, Mind, Stories

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• As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

  George MacDonald

  Library, Grows, Ready

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.5844, Delphi Classics

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• When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

  Christopher Morley

  Real, Love Life, Night

  Christopher Morley (2015). “Parnassus On Wheels”, p.24, Booklassic

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