There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. Votes: 4
Walt DisneyBooks are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. Votes: 3
James Russell LowellThe true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words. Votes: 3
William H. GassThe books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. Votes: 3
Oscar WildeAlways read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. Votes: 3
P. J. O'RourkeYou don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. Votes: 3
Ray BradburyTo learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. Votes: 3
Victor HugoIf one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. Votes: 3
Oscar WildeIt is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. Votes: 3
Oscar WildeLet us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world. Votes: 1
Malala YousafzaiA wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book. Votes: 1
Robert M. GatesYou're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child. Votes: 1
Dr. SeussI think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellAny alphabet book for children where 'P is for Patti' Smith and 'X is for the women whose names we don't know' is something I can recommend, especially when the book is as well written, representationa lly diverse and vividly illustrated as this one. Votes: 3 Francesca Lia Block
That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality. Votes: 3 Grace Paley
God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here. Votes: 5 Paul Erdos
I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world - and I'm lucky to see so much through cycling. Votes: 1 Marianne Vos
These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in an unjust world. Votes: 2 Cory Booker
I love seeing my book on shelves and getting letters from people who liked the book. I love telling stories and having other people tell stories to me. Votes: 2 Sarah Rees Brennan
It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover. Votes: 3 James Gleick
I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. Votes: 3 C. S. Lewis
I read 'Animal Farm' when I was 11, and it remained my favorite book, really. Votes: 1 Martin Freeman
To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance. Votes: 1 Pat Conroy
Every book that is banned is a badge of honor. Votes: 2 Pramoedya Ananta Toer
The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base. Votes: 1 Timothy Ferriss
Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom. Votes: 4 Franklin D. Roosevelt
When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship. Votes: 1 Judy Blume
When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship. Votes: 4 Judy Blume
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Votes: 2 Thomas Jefferson
Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect. Votes: 7 Grant Morrison
Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it. Votes: 3 Erma Bombeck
I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry. Votes: 4 Chang-Rae Lee
The world of comic book collecting is not a pretty place. For a bunch of guys who like good-over-evil stories, you sure meet a lot of morally bankrupt assholes. Votes: 3 Seth
I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise. Votes: 4 Chip Kidd
The critic has to do more of what the book critics and art critics have done in the past. Which is give you a context for understanding the restaurant, give you a better way to appreciate it, give you the tools to go in there and be a more informed diner who can get more pleasure out of the experience. Votes: 3 Ruth Reichl
I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture. Votes: 4 Christoph Waltz
There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. Votes: 2 Terri Windling
A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven. Votes: 5 Lucy Maud Montgomery
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction. Votes: 1 Yann Martel
I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre. Votes: 3 Gale Anne Hurd
I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors. Votes: 3 Alice Walker
The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches. Votes: 3 Anita Diament
I read 'Holes' in 10th grade, and I haven't read a full book since. The movie version with Shia LaBeouf was OK, but the book was way better. Votes: 1 Domo Genesis
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. Votes: 1 Ernest Hemingway
The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up 'Cinna' signs. Votes: 1 Lenny Kravitz
As I point out in the very first pages of 'Into the Wild,' I approached this book not as a normal, you know, unbiased journalist. Votes: 1 Jon Krakauer
Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge. Votes: 3 Vikas Swarup
Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning. Votes: 4 Brian Reynolds Myers
Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover. Votes: 5 Diane Setterfield
The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them. Votes: 3 Anatole Broyard
The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail. Votes: 3 William Gibson
My first children's book, 'Tickle Monster,' was inspired by tickling my son one evening. Votes: 1 Josie Bissett
November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays. Votes: 4 Anita Diament
It's called 'The Outlaw Album,' not 'The Ozarks Album.' These are stories that delve into different kinds of outlawry, from criminal acts to interior, or psychological, outlawry. The book is not meant to be a tapestry of the Ozarks. Votes: 1 Daniel Woodrell
When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal reading of the book of Genesis. Votes: 4 Ken Ham
Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press. Votes: 2 Charles James
I was lucky in getting my first book published; my first book was 'Bunnicula,' which I wrote with my late wife Debbie, for the fun of it. Votes: 2 James Howe
I don't think any book of mine will ever come as close to pure fantasy as 'A Heaven of Others.' I'll never again set a book in a world or after-world in which it's impossible to buy a cup of coffee or take an undisturbed afternoon nap. Votes: 1 Joshua Cohen
We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own eyes. Votes: 2 Michele Bachmann
The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by. Votes: 4 N. T. Wright
I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories. Votes: 3 Bobby McFerrin
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life. Votes: 4 St. Jerome
The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols. Votes: 5 Joseph Franklin Rutherford
I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans. Votes: 1 Martin Cruz Smith
The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the 'capstone,' with continuing latter day revelation. The Lord has placed His stamp of approval on both the keystone and the capstone. Votes: 1 Ezra Taft Benson
My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book. Votes: 3 Ray Bradbury
After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career working for The Urban Justice Center in the streets of Newark, organizing residents to fight for better housing conditions. Votes: 1 Cory Booker
I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing. Votes: 4 Daniel Clowes
People are going to die who don't die in the books, so even the book readers will be unhappy. So everybody better be on their toes. David and D.B. (David Benioff and D.B. Weiss co-creators of 'Game Of Thrones) are even bloodier than I am. Votes: 3 George R. R. Martin
I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet. Votes: 4 Ashwin Sanghi
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. Votes: 1 Rebecca West
I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life. Votes: 7 Lev Grossman
If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews. Votes: 5 Randa Abdel-Fattah
When I started 'City of Bones,' I knew exactly what was going to happen in 'City of Glass.' When I first started the six-book series, I thought of it as a three-book series. Votes: 4 Cassandra Clare
I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. Votes: 1 William Gibson
I work in a small study on the top floor of a brownstone in Brooklyn - it's about 75 square feet, 11 taken up by book shelves along one wall. Votes: 3 Kathryn Harrison
I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature. Votes: 1 John Grisham
You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart. Votes: 3 Harvey Mackay
He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without the words. Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain. Votes: 3 Markus Zusak
Hope lies in what the book title says, finding love and community. Votes: 3 Hazel Rochman
Carlton Mellick III has the craziest book titles and the kinkiest fans! Votes: 5 Christopher Moore
I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did. It was an amazing thing, because planes hadn't been flying very many days, and I got on this plane and went to San Francisco, and the minute that plane lifted above the clouds, I felt this incredible sense of lightness. Votes: 1 Joan Didion
I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. That's it. Votes: 3 Benjamin Booker
There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree. I think that all written work constitutes literature, even graffiti. Votes: 1 Eduardo Galeano
Girls read a boy book, but boys don't necessarily want to read a girl book. Votes: 3 Sharon Draper
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. Votes: 3 Ray Bradbury
Everyone does a style book, and I wanted to write a business book for people that didn't think they would like a business book. Votes: 4 Sophia Amoruso
A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books. Votes: 1 A. S. Byatt
Every book is a children's book if the kid can read! Votes: 4 Mitch Hedberg
Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become. Votes: 3 Jane Yolen
So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech. Votes: 7 Neil Gaiman
I used to go to the comic store all the time. I was into comic cards, which are essentially baseball cards for comic book heroes. They have these cool stats on the back. I had collections of these things. I still have a lot of my collection at home. Votes: 4 Brett Dalton
I'm a massive comic book fan. I was buying weekly installments of "The Watchmen", and "From Hell", and "Parallax" and "Johnny Nemo". I was a huge comic book fan as a kid and I still am. Me and my youngest son are both comic book nerds together; make models and stuff. Votes: 3 Jude Law
I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book. Votes: 1 Laurence Olivier
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired. Votes: 2 Moliere
My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons. Votes: 6 Meg Cabot
Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I was growing up, for a long time, was 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, which I must have read about a dozen times when I was a teenager. Votes: 7 Ned Beauman
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. Votes: 2 Truman Capote
I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet. Votes: 1 Neale Donald Walsch
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. Votes: 2 Ernest Hemingway
I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world. Votes: 2 Garry Kasparov
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit. Votes: 4 John Milton
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. Votes: 4 Robertson Davies
The Bible's the greatest book ever written. But I sure don't need anybody I can buy for six bits and a chew of tobacco to explain it to me. Votes: 2 Huey Long
I have been in five Harry Potter films and never read a 'Harry Potter' book. If you are an actor, all you have is the script you are given. If you read the book, you might get disappointed about what's been left out. Votes: 1 Michael Gambon
Coming into your powers can be a very confusing time. Perhaps there is a book on the subject. If you like, we can go see Marian." Yeah, right. Choices and Changes. A Modern Girl's Guide to Casting. My Mom Wants to Kill Me: A Self-Help Book For Teens. Votes: 4 Kami Garcia
I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings. Votes: 2 Katy Perry
I was a massive Tolkien fan. 'The Hobbit' was... my favorite book as a little girl, and the Silvan Elves were my favorite characters in the book. Votes: 1 Evangeline Lilly
Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler. Votes: 4 Pope Shenouda III
I read the three Hunger Games books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote Just a Game. Votes: 2 Birdy
No matter where I am in the world or what's on my schedule, I begin each day by reading an inspirational book and then meditating and praying. I adopted this healthy habit many years ago to ensure that my first thoughts of the day were positive. Votes: 3 Doreen Virtue
You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking. Votes: 2 David Mamet
My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover. Votes: 3 Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran. Votes: 3 Marjane Satrapi
I got a call on a Sunday. 'Do you want to do 'The Godfather?' I thought they were kidding me, right? I said, 'Yes, of course, I love that book' - which I had never read. Votes: 1 Albert S. Ruddy
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. Votes: 2 Thomas Jefferson
Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. Votes: 5 Marianne Williamson
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. Votes: 4 E. M. Forster
Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language. Votes: 2 Maya Angelou
A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder. Votes: 2 J. Courtney Sullivan
Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument of the fountain pen to the note-book of the student without passing through the mind of either. Votes: 2 Harry Lloyd
There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book. Votes: 4 Will Rogers
The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and how my family had come together and come apart - sorting all that out, you know, issues of personal identity. Votes: 3 Barack Obama
The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book. Votes: 4 Ron Reagan
When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book. Votes: 1 Kate Bernheimer
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986. Votes: 4 Taslima Nasrin
The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be. Votes: 2 John Banville
Love and Loyalty, run deeper than blood." Love that quote even though I haven't read the book. Votes: 0 Richelle Mead
I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book. Votes: 3 Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat. Votes: 4 Lord Byron
My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book. Votes: 3 Robin Gibb
Reading the Book of Mormon is one of the greatest persuaders to get men on missions. Votes: 1 Ezra Taft Benson
In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's. Votes: 1 Ernie Harwell
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass. Votes: 4 Eudora Welty
I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.' Votes: 1 Malorie Blackman
Socrates became a trendsetter. Other philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle and Gus, quickly followed suit, dropping their last names too. And, for centuries after that there would be countless imitators including oltaire, Michelangelo, and, much later, Cher. Votes: 4 Demetri Martin
When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can. Votes: 4 Thomas Perry