Quotes and sayings about tag  #books

Quotes and sayings about tag  books

444 Quotes

His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

Joseph Joubert

I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

Joshua Slocum

[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

Judy Blume

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

Judy Blume

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

Julia Quinn

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

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.

Karen Marie Moning

The world is dark, and light is precious.Come closer, dear reader.You must trust me.I am telling you a story.

Kate DiCamillo

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Kathleen Thompson Norris

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

Kelley Armstrong

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Khaled Hosseini

Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone.

Kiera Cass

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

L.M. Montgomery

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.

Laurie Notaro

People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]

Lemmy Kilmister

There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.

Lemony Snicket

There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.

Lemony Snicket

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

Lemony Snicket

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good."

Leo Tolstoy

Come with me,' Mom says.To the library. Books and summertimego together.

Lisa Schroeder

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

Lloyd Alexander

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Louisa May Alcott

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

Louisa May Alcott

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

Louisa May Alcott

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Madeleine L'Engle

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

Madeleine L'Engle

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

Mae West

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