Quotes and sayings about tag  books

444 Quotes

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

G.K. Chesterton

We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.[Inside Out (VH1)]

Warren Zevon

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

G.K. Chesterton

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

Gabrielle Zevin

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.

Gail Carriger

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

Gail Carson Levine

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

Garrison Keillor

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

Gary Paulsen

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

Gary Paulsen

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Gaston Bachelard

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

George Bernard Shaw

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

George Gissing

He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.

George R.R. Martin

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