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132 quotes about Books

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a...

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson about books

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures...

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

Quote by Lope de Vega about books

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

Quote by John Milton about books

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, ...

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Quote by Oliver Goldsmith about books

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.

Quote by Harry S. Truman about books

Books and marriage go ill together.

Books and marriage go ill together.

Quote by Molière about books

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

Quote by William Shakespeare about books

I pray you all, gentlemen and gentlewomen that readeth this book of Arthur and his knights, from the beginning to the ending, pray for me while I am alive, that God send me good deliverance, and when I am dead, I pray you all pray for my soul.

Quote by Sir Thomas Malory about books

I write books to find out about things.

I write books to find out about things.

Quote by Rebecca West about books

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally...

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa about books

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, ...

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing

Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa about books

It is for this child in me, and in all of us, that I tell...

It is for this child in me, and in all of us, that I tell my stories, and that my books are for any child between 80 and 8 years.

Quote by Michael Ende about books

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, ...

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Quote by Jim Bishop about books

Life is too short to read bad books.

Life is too short to read bad books.

Quote by Gerhart Hauptmann about books

The book is life of our time.

The book is life of our time.

Quote by Vissarion Belinsky about books

There is no difference between making bread and printing...

There is no difference between making bread and printing books.

Quote by Costache Olareanu about books

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

Quote by Wislawa Szymborska about books

When a new book is published, read an old one.

When a new book is published, read an old one.

Quote by Samuel Rogers about books

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, ...

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Quote by Rupert Brooke about books

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other...

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

Quote by P. L. Travers about books

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