Quotes with books

  • I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
  • Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
  • It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.
  • And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever.
  • Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
  • And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
  • No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
  • At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
  • The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.
  • My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Margaret Drabble If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Voltaire It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Barbara Hambly It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.
    Barbara Hambly
     
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  • Abraham Lincoln Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Evan Esar Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
    Evan Esar
    American humorist (1899 - 1995)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • John Updike Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Voltaire The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Katherine Mansfield The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives whith another who shares the same books.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • W. E. B. Du Bois There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.
    W. E. B. Du Bois
    American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and writer (1868 - 1963)
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