Voltaires Books Quotes

I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays. ~ Susan Straight

The architecture for 'Paladin' - given that it's at least three books, with the possibility of more - turned out to be bigger than anything I've ever created, with multiple levels of reality, interlocking mysteries and a terabyte of time frame. ~ Mark Frost

She snuggled into bed with them, looking up from time to time, saying she was sorry, she knew she should be doing something more productive, but like Dad, she had her addictions, and one of hers was reading. ~ Jeannette Walls

He'd say, 'Right now we're livingin an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better,'"
~Charlotte Bailey, Land of Stories: A Wishing Spell ~ Chris Colfer

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high. ~ Haruki Murakami

It's true we only learn from mistake but they don't have to be ours ~ Someone

When I find myself in a dreaded reading slump, nothing boosts me out of it faster than revisiting an old favorite. Old books, like old friends, are good for the soul. But they're not just comfort reads. No, a good book is exciting to return to, because even though I've been there before, the landscape is always changing. I notice something new each time I read a great book. As Italo Calvino wrote, "A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say." Great books keep surprising me with new things. ~ Anne Bogel

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

The worst feature of the Common Core is its anti-humanistic, utilitarian approach to education. It mistakes what a child is and what a human being is for. That is why it has no use for poetry, and why it boils the study of literature down to the scrambling up of some marketable "skill" [ ... ] you don't read good books to learn about what literary artists do ... you learn about literary art so that you can read more good books and learn more from them. It is as if Thomas Gradgrind had gotten hold of the humanities and turned them into factory robotics. ~ Anthony Esolen

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism. ~ Bell Hooks

I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them. ~ Brad Feld

I've read all the 'Game of Thrones' books many times over, so I sometimes find it easier being on set, because it can be hard to get out of character. ~ Emilia Clarke

A person's Acts of #Kindness far outlives their lifespan,for they leave behind a true, meaningful legacy. ~ Michael Levy

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Women began their inner emancipation by their access to literature, by access to the world through books; an access they could not have socially or politically, or of course economically, in the world at large. ~ George Steiner

Little things matter far more than big ones. We remember them longer. We can't control the big things. If you think about what's happened in the past, it will be the small moments that come to the forefront, not the big transitions. The big things were just history. The small moments are yours. The books those monks printed are still preserved centuries after they were gone. Little things matter. ~ Joey W. Hill

There's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase ~ Sergei Dovlatov

The room was as big as the Duke of Pardloe's library and had at least as many books, and yet the feeling of it was more akin to a small cluttered hole (Pardloe's)
You could tell from the books whether a library was meant for show or not, Books that were usedhad an open, interested feel to them, even when closed and neatly lined up on a shelf in strict order. You felt as though the book took on as much interest in you as you did in it and it was willing you to reach for it. ~ Diana Gabaldon

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches. ~ Gary D. Schmidt

Members brought books, precious objects, and records of creature history to the city and purchased an island in the lagoon from the Catholic Church: Isola della Stella (Island of Stars). On it were monastic buildings that were converted to suit the Congregation's purposes. ..the vast, ancient monastery library, filled with books, papers, and papyri;...This council chamber, with its stunning frescoes, mosaics, vaulted ceiling, and gallery where the most precious records are kept, embodies the Congregation's power. ~ Deborah Harkness

Photos sat on the piano and shelves bulged with books, testament to a life well lived. ~ Louise Penny

I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long. ~ Pamela Stephenson

Books are much better companions to me than people. ~ Rakesh Satyal

I did grow up reading the 'Twilight' books. I feel guilty, but I was always Team Edward. ~ Halston Sage

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs. ~ Calvin Trillin

Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to the inner world of the story as I can make them. ~ Susan Patron

I've changed in my sympathies since I've become a mother myself. In high school I went through a period where I was close with my mom and had to break with her in order to find myself and come back. Since that was my experience, that's often what happens in my books. ~ Sarah Dessen

People often say that football and boxing are the ways out of the working class and they are your ticket out of that kind of life, if you happen to want to leave it. But, for me, the library is the key. That is where the escape tunnel is. All of the knowledge in the world is there. The great brains of the world are at your fingertips. ~ Billy Connolly

Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself. ~ Benjamin Franklin

A book a week I heave a sigh;
That Slogan's peremptory cry
I will not hear, I will not heed.
How can They say that I should need
The book They bid me weekly buy?
But Slogans change, as days go by;
My Psyche listens, fluttering shy,
To newer message "Come and Read
A book a week."
To read! to read! O wings that fly
O'er sun-kissed lands, through clouded sky
That bear us on where Great ones lead!
I too must follow, so I plead
For magic wings. I'll read (or try)
A book a week! ~ Alexander Ireland

The Orderly Liquidation Authority prescribed by Dodd-Frank should be repealed and replaced by an amendment to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code which would operate to prevent cross-default provisions from impacting derivatives books so long as mark-to-market payments are being made in a timely fashion. ~ Paul Singer

Life is very difficult. There's nothing to be ashamed of by reading self-help books. If you're stuck in a dark place it can be incredibly uplifting and hope providing to engage with those tools. So go out there and do it!! ~ Jim Dooley

A man has perished; his corpse is dust,
and his people have passed from the land;
it is a book which makes him remembered
in the mouth of a speaker.
More excellent is a [papyrus] roll than a built house,
than a chapel in the west.
It is better than an established villa,
than a stela in a temple... ~ Anonymous

I have spent 20
years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and
scream, that takes 30 seconds. ~ Andrea Dworkin

I don't understand your book. Isn't every book a book of words? ~ Kristin Cashore