Books But Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Books But
Books But Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Books But quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.
— Glen Cook
Books make the best ersatz friendships.
— Nenia Campbell
When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.
— Guillaume Musso
I used to collect comic books. I had a substantial collection. I collect records also, but those have gone the way of the world.
— Robin Zander
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book it makes a very poor doorstop. — Alfred Hitchcock
Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft.
— Alice Hoffman
When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.
— Jerry Spinelli
I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.
— Lisa Scottoline
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
— Toni Morrison
I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.
— Thomas Perry
All my books are adventures, but they also have a social viewpoint.
— Anatoly Rybakov
I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.
— George R R Martin
Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.
— J.K. Rowling
...never fully appreciated her before," he told us. "She's strong, like one of these women detectives in books, but kind and compassionate--
— Jacqueline Girdner
By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.
— Desiderius Erasmus
I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book.
— J.K. Rowling
Take what interests and knowledge you can from books, but do not let them replace words and thoughts of your own.
— Pai Kit Fai
Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.
— Desiderius Erasmus
The reality is that people reach for a Bible when they're feeling lost. But if they hadn't shelved it, maybe they wouldn't have gotten lost.
— Crystal Woods
I suppose Stanley fell in love with me during those talks about life and books, but he probably loved someone else, a person who wasn't me.
— Siri Hustvedt
I've been called many things in my time, but never a conduit of divinity- Cedric MacKinnon, My Fearful Symmetry
— Denise Verrico
I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.
— Alan Davies
For someone who made such an enormous contribution to American literature, Mark Twain has been the subject of many books but few major biographies.
— Michael Patrick Hearn
Read much, but not too many books.
— Benjamin Franklin
I know you may feel so far that circumstances have directed your path, but right now I want you to know that you do have a choice.
— Larry Itejere
![Books But Quotes By John Sutherland: [Books are] vital to learning. Half the population](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/books-but-quotes-by-john-sutherland-164259.jpg "Books But Quotes By John Sutherland: [Books are] vital to learning. Half the population")
[Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don't go to football matches but that doesn't make football any less important.
— John Sutherland
Lives are short, but knowledge is eternal.
— Rachel Caine
Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.
— James Earl Jones
He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.
— Victor Hugo
Having access to the library was all well and good, but as a collector you had to own the book.
— John Baxter
A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.
— Nicholaa Spencer
In adolescence students are suddenly turned loose on books worth reading, but generally don't know how to read them.
— Martin Buber
With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.
— Morrissey
In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite high.
— John Banville
I made a list of things I wanted to do with my life, but it ended up mostly being a list of books I wanted to write
— Ellie Rose McKee
I was dropped by my publisher after my first two books. But I always believed in myself.
— John Boyne
But books don't happen by accident.
— Scott Westerfeld
But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
— Patricia Cornwell
I am an author of Christian Fantasy. My first 7 books were Christian Romance, but I came over to the Dark Side when I heard there were cookies.
— Donita K. Paul
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.
— Cecil B. DeMille
The teacher has assigned us a few chapters at a time, but I do not like to read books like
— Stephen Chbosky
She's so beautiful. She lectures a lot, like her father, but she's really beautiful.
— Diana S. Zimmerman
It has never been easier to get books but never harder to find the quiet needed to study them.
— John Mark Reynolds
You can write books, but there's only ever one book that's really you.
— Joan G. Robinson
It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
— William Faulkner
The wall of my heart is thin and the beat irregular but a new heart is being formed in me.
— Jonah Books
In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody's best friend.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
When I die I hope it may be said:'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'. — Shannon L. Alder
It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book ... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt ...
— Ray Bradbury
I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
— Thomas Jefferson
You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
— Khaled Hosseini
But the book! The siren song of the book!
— Ellen Douglas
There are a lot of writers, but only one YOU.
— Pandora Gray
... but for now it's too great a pleasure to stay in my own cottage, with my own books, and do exactly what I want to do.
— Melinda Salisbury
I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.
— Steve Toltz
I was thinking, So, I'm Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.
— Robert Graves
Life, it's a long road but a short ride.
— Paul Carafotes
Working 9 to 5 is structure. But tying lines together all hours of day is structure at its best performing magic.
— C.C. Wyatt
They were just stories, but stories weren't just anything.
— Rainbow Rowell
Everybody wants confidence but you don't find it in self help books. You find confidence in the Holy Spirit.
— Rick Warren
You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is.
— Carew Papritz
Count calories if you like, but go ahead and gorge yourself on books. What have you got to lose but a small mind?
— Robin R. Meyers
He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.
— Victor Hugo
I ought to write funny books. Life is really too horribly funny, but unless one's an outsider looking on, it's all such a bore.
— Graham Greene
I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart ... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.
— John Grisham
Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
— A.E. Housman
After reading a book, you become someone else: Now you are not you, but you plus the book!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.
— David Almond
I like zombies; I like them fine. But I don't have a long list of zombie movies or books that are among my favorite things in the world.
— Steve Hockensmith
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.
— Vincent D'Onofrio
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.
— Richard Baxter
I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you.
— Sarah Rees Brennan
Writing a book isn't an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life's most satisfying achievements.
— Guy Kawasaki
The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her.
— Mary Papas
If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed!
— Lily Tomlin
