Quotes and sayings about tag  books

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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

Mark Twain

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Mark Twain

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Mark Twain

Classic? - a book which people praise and don't read.

Mark Twain

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Mark Twain

If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

Mark Twain

Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.

Mark Z. Danielewski

Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.

Markus Herz

The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.

Markus Zusak

As always, one of her books was next to her.

Markus Zusak

My arms are killing me. I didn't know words could be so heavy.

Markus Zusak

The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

Markus Zusak

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

Martin Luther

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

Mason Cooley

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