Book Quotes About Reading & Ideas – Page 3 | GloryQuotes

I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.

Floyd Abrams

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

Miguel de Cervantes

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

Sam Levenson

I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.

Harvey Pekar

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

Marilyn vos Savant

A home without books is a body without soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

Douglas Sirk

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

Jeanette Winterson

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.

Thomas Keneally

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

Joseph Joubert

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

Charles Caleb Colton

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.

Marilyn vos Savant

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

James Russell Lowell

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

Angela Carter

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Anita Brookner

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.

John Milton

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

Charles Horton Cooley

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

Rebecca West

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Christopher Morley

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.

Mark Foley

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Benjamin Franklin

I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.

Kevin J. Anderson

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship.

Sara Paretsky

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

Mark Haddon

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

Edward Gibbon

While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.

Anthony Holden

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

William Wycherley

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

Jeanette Winterson

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

Eric Allin Cornell