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 and some books, I live without envy.Quote by Lope de Vega about books
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
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
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, while despair is nothingQuote by Mario Vargas Llosa about books
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, retreat or fly into the future.Quote by Jim Bishop about books
There is no difference between making bread and printing books.Quote by Costache Olareanu about books
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 half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.Quote by P. L. Travers about books