The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. Votes: 1
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowYou don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. Votes: 1
Ray BradburyWith a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. Votes: 1
Lope de VegaBut more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. Votes: 1
H. P. LovecraftYou will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of BlackburnIt ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books.
Josephine Dodge Daskam BaconThe NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does. Votes: 5 Michael Gerson
Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it. Votes: 3 Josh Lieb
Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me. Votes: 1 Colleen Atwood
I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books. Votes: 4 Thomas Kinkade
I've been drawing authors and politicians for newspapers for many years. I try to read up on the person; in the case of authors, read one of their books. I watch interviews via YouTube and collect pictures via the Internet. Votes: 1 Siegfried Woldhek
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Votes: 3 Salman Rushdie
And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food. Votes: 1 Joan Collins
I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books. Votes: 4 Mark Z. Danielewski
Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical. Votes: 5 Dylan Moran
My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them. Votes: 1 Pink
Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf. Votes: 3 Sam Ewing
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises. Votes: 2 Chanakya
The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community. Votes: 3 Aaron Swartz
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly. Votes: 5 Tom Clancy
I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries. Votes: 5 Adriana Trigiani
For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window. Votes: 1 Mitch Albom
Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas. Votes: 3 Gary Paulsen
I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books. Votes: 2 Margaret Haddix
I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much. Votes: 1 Janet Evanovich
Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise. Votes: 1 David Sedaris
Sometimes, my books start with a scene I see in my mind, such as a woman in a wedding dress running away from her wedding like in 'Embers of Love.' Sometimes, a book can start with a character. Votes: 1 Tracie Peterson
I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it. Votes: 2 Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens. Votes: 4 Tom Peters
Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little. Votes: 4 Sol LeWitt
Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again. Votes: 3 Lev Grossman
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people. Votes: 4 Cornelia Funke
I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world. Votes: 2 Patti Smith
If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important. Votes: 3 Roald Dahl
A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books. Votes: 1 A. S. Byatt
Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. Votes: 3 Shel Silverstein
Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at 'proper' books, which means books without pictures. Votes: 1 Anthony Browne
I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed. Votes: 3 Gregory Maguire
There are so many classic Big Brother warning books: the Internet is a horrible, controlling thing, as if it has a consciousness or political agenda. Votes: 1 Joshua Cohen
he looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a strange, distant murmur coming from them. each of the closed books was a door, and behind it stirred shadows, voices, sounds, heading toward him from a deep, dark place. Votes: 3 Arturo Pérez-Reverte
I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!' Votes: 2 Linda Grant
I got these big coffee table books about Chinese opera from the local library, and I loved looking through them. I loved studying the intricate costumes and figuring out how to 'cartoonify' them. Votes: 3 Gene Luen Yang
When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream. Votes: 2 Elvis Presley
I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating. Votes: 3 Louise Brown
My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with 'The Waste Land,' I opened their copy of 'Ulysses.' The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic. Votes: 3 John Updike
I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year! Votes: 4 Colum McCann
I think that most writers who are trying to write important and difficult books are in many ways putting their own humanity into question. Sometimes the journey is finding out where you stand in relationship to your own humanity and to the humanity of others. Votes: 3 Chris Abani
What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away. Votes: 3 Tamora Pierce
You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life. Votes: 3 Ravi Zacharias
Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand. Votes: 3 Steven Pinker
The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books. Votes: 3 Michael Bassey Johnson
Because making movies is such an expensive endeavor, other media such as books and comics have long been a more feasible way to experiment with truly new ideas. Votes: 1 Anita Elberse
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. Votes: 3 Moliere
I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales. Votes: 1 Carol Ann Duffy
The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689. Votes: 3 Richard Flanagan
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person. Votes: 4 Elizabeth Moon
Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible. Votes: 5 Libba Bray
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. Votes: 3 John Wooden
I think my funny books are my favorites because I like to laugh so much. Votes: 4 Dav Pilkey
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. Votes: 1 Lope de Vega
Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers. Votes: 1 Hillary Clinton
Why is it that countries which we call strong are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard? Votes: 3 Malala Yousafzai
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. Votes: 3 Mark Twain
My books fall in the wobbly middle between historical fiction and historical romance. Votes: 2 Lauren Willig
My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history. Votes: 2 Ellen Tauscher
There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library. Votes: 3 Martin Lewis Perl
This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole. Votes: 1 F. Sionil Jose
I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about. Votes: 3 Dirk Benedict
As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books with your child. Votes: 1 Anthony Browne
As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books with your child. Votes: 1 Anthony Browne
There are so many books I love for different reasons. For superhero stuff, I always go back to Alan Moore's 'Watchmen' or his 'Swamp Thing' run. Those are my two favorites, and there are indie books that I really love, like Eddie Campbell's 'Alec' books and 'From Hell.' Votes: 3 Jeff Lemire
We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends. Votes: 3 Alfred Armand Montapert
Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads. Votes: 1 Cornelia Funke
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims. Votes: 2 George Henry Lewes
For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy. Votes: 3 Selma Lagerlof
Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud. Votes: 3 Jonathan Safran Foer
I do screen work, adult books, kids books and comic stuff, which gives me a pretty full plate. The problem is usually choosing which one I want to work on next. Votes: 3 Chris Wooding
Nice feelings are for people who have money to live as they please. If I had ten thousand a year, or even five, I would snap my fingers at all men, and say, 'No, I make my life as I choose, and shall cultivate knowledge and books, and indulge in beautiful ideas of honor and exalted sentiments, and perhaps one day succumb to a noble passion. Votes: 3 Elinor Glyn
Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge. Votes: 5 Matisyahu
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world. Votes: 3 William Shenstone
Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation. Votes: 4 Charice Pempengco
In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership. Votes: 3 Jack Canfield
There were a lot of things I loved about working in a library, but mostly I miss the library patrons. I love books, but books are everywhere. Library patrons are as various and oddball and democratic as library books. Votes: 2 Elizabeth McCracken
Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me. Votes: 3 Bill Hicks
I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries. Votes: 3 Adriana Trigiani
I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult. Votes: 2 Matt Groening
My grandmother was a psychiatrist and had shelves full of medical books - I was constantly sneaking looks at some of those. I was fascinated by the descriptions of illnesses and diseases. Votes: 3 Jennifer McMahon
I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time. Votes: 1 Emma Watson
In my books I try to tell a good story, not give messages. Votes: 1 Avi
I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look. Votes: 3 Louise Mensch
Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books. Votes: 4 Douglas Lain
I really started watching films when I was 14. As I became a teenager, there was nothing that really interested me apart from music, books and films. Votes: 1 Claire Denis
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. Votes: 1 Samuel Smiles
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. Votes: 2 John Wooden
Non-fiction books have helped me enormously with lots of my books. Votes: 1 Gillian Cross
We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly. Votes: 3 Virginia Woolf
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. Votes: 1 Bernard Baruch
I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books. Votes: 6 Sheryl Sandberg
I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage. Votes: 3 Sean Combs
It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books. Votes: 3 Margaret Mahy
Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books? Votes: 5 Octavio Paz
The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be. Votes: 4 John Banville
Print will never die. There's no substitute for the feel of an actual book. I adore physically turning pages, and being able to underline passages and not worrying about dropping them in the bath or running out of power. I also find print books objects of beauty. Votes: 2 J. K. Rowling
I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world. Votes: 3 Mattie Stepanek
I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book. Votes: 3 Lev Grossman
We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but we're still left wanting to know more. In my own case, it was 'Great Expectations' and Miss Havisham in particular. Luckily, writers have the option of making up the knowledge that reading doesn't supply. Votes: 1 Ronald Frame
Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school. Votes: 1 Karin Slaughter
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book. Votes: 1 Anthony Browne
A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference. Votes: 1 John Hodgman
My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me), shopping, driving somewhere, seeing different things. Votes: 3 Mary Engelbreit
I will always respect the beliefs of fellow Christians who aren't comfortable reading or writing explicit love scenes, but I believe romances are beautiful and spiritual books that celebrate the best of what love has to offer and mirror the love God has for his children. Votes: 1 Teresa Medeiros
I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it. Votes: 3 Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early children's stories came from the radio and watching films at a cinema on Saturday mornings in Australia. It wasn't until I was nine years old on a ship returning from Australia that I was introduced to children's books. Votes: 1 Michelle Magorian
Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books. Votes: 3 Nelson Mandela
I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books. Votes: 2 Margaret Haddix
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. Votes: 1 John Wooden
I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism. Votes: 2 Liam Neeson
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places. Votes: 1 Louise Brown
Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s. Votes: 3 Andrei Codrescu
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. Votes: 1 Camille Paglia
I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them. Votes: 3 John le Carre
If pornography releases sexual tension, why don't we send recipe books to the starving? Votes: 5 Andrea Dworkin
In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership. Votes: 1 Jack Canfield
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. Votes: 1 Dorothy Allison
The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems. Votes: 3 Robert Green Ingersoll
It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt. Votes: 4 Vincent D'Onofrio
I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books. Votes: 4 Anthony Doerr
My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books. Votes: 3 Alejandro Amenabar
There are several books that I have-the Physics of Star Trek, Star Trek and Business, there are manuals on command style and countless scholarly papers that have been written about the significance of Next Generation. Votes: 1 Patrick Stewart
If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong. Votes: 2 Christine Keeler
I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view. Votes: 1 Dan Brown
I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things. Votes: 1 Bindi Irwin
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching. Votes: 1 Joseph Smith, Jr.
I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today. Votes: 1 Dolly Parton
Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books. Votes: 2 David Strathairn
There's a famous tension between Green Lantern and Green Arrow in the comic books. Those guys have always been friends. They started off as not on the same page, and then they quickly became best friends. Votes: 1 Geoff Johns
I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books. Votes: 3 Robert Darnton
Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places. Votes: 3 Paul Theroux
One of my favorite books is 'Armadillo Rodeo', and I got the idea from traveling to Texas and seeing armadillos. Votes: 1 Jan Brett
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. Votes: 1 Avi Arad
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page. Votes: 5 Brandon Mull
A lot of people have read the Mira Grant books who are not urban fantasy readers, and they would never have picked up a book with an urban fantasist's name on the cover, but then they go on to read my urban fantasy and like it. Votes: 1 Seanan McGuire
Used books are the sluts of the literary world. Passed around from person to person, spreading their pages for anyone, getting cheaper and cheaper until eventually they end up in prison. Votes: 4 Stephen Colbert
The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought. Votes: 3 Edith Wharton
Today we read books 'extensively,' often without sustained focus, and with rare exceptions we read each book only once. We value quantity of reading over quality of reading. We have no choice, if we want to keep up with the broader culture. Votes: 1 Joshua Foer
I am a huge fan of world-building. I love doing it in my own books, and I love reading it done well. Votes: 1 Sarah Monette