Quotes and sayings about tag  books

444 Quotes

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Jane Austen

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Jane Austen

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

Jane Hamilton

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Jane Smiley

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

Jasper Fforde

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

Jasper Fforde

Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly

Jayne Ann Krentz

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

Jean Fritz

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

Jean-Paul Sartre

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

Jeanette Winterson

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Jerry Seinfeld

When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.

Jerry Spinelli

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

Jhumpa Lahiri

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

Jo Walton

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