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Books Quotes

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world Picture Quote #1

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I’ve read has taught me something Picture Quote #1

There’s always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful Picture Quote #1

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! Picture Quote #1

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be forbid Picture Quote #1

Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw Picture Quote #1

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I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on Picture Quote #1

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books Picture Quote #1

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them Picture Quote #1

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens Picture Quote #1

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones Picture Quote #1

I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don’t know, read something or write my masterpiece Picture Quote #1

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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career Picture Quote #1

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library... Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book Picture Quote #1

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man’s origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist Picture Quote #1

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books Picture Quote #1

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give Picture Quote #1

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn’t it? Picture Quote #1

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Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen Picture Quote #1

The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users Picture Quote #1

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning Picture Quote #1

How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know Picture Quote #1

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub Picture Quote #1

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred? Picture Quote #1

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We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things Picture Quote #1

In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark Picture Quote #1

There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity Picture Quote #1

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books Picture Quote #1

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood Picture Quote #1

Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it Picture Quote #1

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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world (Books Quotes) I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I’ve read has taught me something (Books Quotes) There’s always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful (Books Quotes) If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! (Books Quotes) If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be forbid (Books Quotes) Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw (Books Quotes) I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on (Books Quotes) In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books (Books Quotes) A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them (Books Quotes) Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens (Books Quotes) The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones (Books Quotes) I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don’t know, read something or write my masterpiece (Books Quotes) I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career (Books Quotes) The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library... Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book (Books Quotes) Fifty years from now if an understanding of man’s origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist (Books Quotes) Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books (Books Quotes) I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give (Books Quotes) Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn’t it? (Books Quotes) Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen (Books Quotes) The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users (Books Quotes) Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning (Books Quotes) How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know (Books Quotes) Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub (Books Quotes) What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred? (Books Quotes) We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things (Books Quotes) In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark (Books Quotes) There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity (Books Quotes) It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books (Books Quotes) He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood (Books Quotes) Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it (Books Quotes)

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