477 Quotes About Books-and-reading

In each of my books a character begins to take over.

For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.

Certain opuscules, denominated 'Christmas Books,' with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the new year

...Metallica mythos...distilled the essences of the comic books and horror movies and the fantastic literature of metal itself...

The books, representing writers from Egypt, Brazil, Europe, Canada and the United States, will explore what it means to belong, a theme that transcends many cultures and experiences.

Investors are buying dollars to book gains after the real rose for five straight sessions.

Everything used to be complex about Thermo. But they experienced every problem in the book before the restructuring -- nothing is going to bother them now.

Just because we have 30 students in a course doesn't mean we'll sell 30 books. It's going to affect everybody. It may just be a change of how we sell books.

I think the newspaper headline might have over-exaggerated the comments in the book,