Literature is analysis after the event.
Doris LessingWhen I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
Desiderius Erasmus RoterodamusThe proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous HuxleyMost of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
Lloyd AlexanderAn hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.
Thomas WhartonMaster books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.
Edward G. Bulwer-LyttonI hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
Jean-Jacques RousseauA half read book is a half finished love affair.
David MitchellHonesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
Thomas JeffersonSo many books, so little time.
Frank ZappaA good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) LichtenbergStudy nature, not books.
Louis AgassizFinally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraPeople do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston ChurchillShe is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
Louisa May AlcottBooks are humanity in print.
Barbara TuchmanWinter is here...'
George RR MartinThe flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.
Stephane MallarmeJust the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Kathleen Thompson NorrisI just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
Octavia E. ButlerComic books were just the means for me to tell the story.
Michael ChabonWe cannot learn men from books.
Benjamin DisraeliI hate books, for they only teach people to talk about what they do not understand.
Jean Jacques RousseauNever trust a man who reads only one book.
Arturo Pérez-ReverteLiterature is the immortality of speech.
August Wilhelm Von SchlegelThere can be no literary equivalent to truth.
Laura RidingI was with book, as a woman is with child.
C.S. LewisA losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
George BorrowI never thought I would just be doing Arkady books.
Martin C. SmithWe are made whole By books, as by great spaces and the stars
Mary Carolyn DaviesWithout story books is like a person with no soul.
Stephen KingPerversity is the muse of modern literature.
Susan SontagI never buy magazines, I never even buy books.
Marc NewsonWith a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) LichtenbergI will try to write books until I drop dead.
Cornelia FunkeLiterature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.
W. R. [William Ralph] IngeThat is a good book which opened with expectation and closed with profit.
Amos Bronson AlcottUnless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
Lawrence Clark PowellI wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do.
Paula Danziger…only then did I wake out of the book.
John McGahernBooks are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Robert Louis StevensonAny book which is at all important should be reread immediately.
Arthur SchopenhauerSo, in effect, my first sale was actually two books.
George StephenReaders are paramount. I live to write books for them.
Jeffery DeaverO livro que espalma a flor nas suas págimas transforma a em borboleta.
Ramón Gómez de la SernaTake no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
Jasper FfordeLiterature is the orchestration of platitudes.
Thornton WilderIf another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing press.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) LichtenbergAll that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
Jean-Paul SartreAll literature is political.
LeVar BurtonI just write the books that I think I would want to read.
Curtis SittenfeldThe true university of these days is a collection of books.
Thomas CarlyleLiterature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
D. H. (David Herbert) LawrenceNext, in importance to books are their titles.
Frank CraneA man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.
Francois MitterrandAs life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
Wallace StevensBooks may well be the only true magic.
Alice HoffmanLeisure without literature is death and burial alive.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder)I have friends who read my books in Greek.
Brian LumleyTo love is to burn, to be on fire
Karen FerryBook is the new cool for the txt generation
Erica WagnerO livro é um pássaro com mais de cem asas para voar.
Ramón Gómez de la SernaThe wise are above books.
Samuel DanielMake it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
George Bernard ShawBook: A garden carried in a pocket.
Arabian ProverbA best seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
Logan Pearsall SmithDeep versed in books and shallow in himself.
John MiltonBooks do furnish a room.
Anthony PowellI love comic books and always did as a kid.
Rick MoodyRemarks are not literature.
Gertrude SteinBooks are a narcotic.
Franz KafkaVery few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.
Robert B. ParkerI take refuge in my books.
Julia Ward HoweA book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) LichtenbergI hate books, for they only teach people to talk about what they do not understand.
Jean Jacques RousseauNever trust a man who reads only one book.
Arturo Pérez-ReverteBooks, the children of the brain.
Jonathan Swift