Quotes about books

A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

Oscar Wilde

Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.

Walt Whitman

All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.

William E. Vaughan

My books have contradictions all the time – and people are fine with that.

Malcolm Gladwell

If it had anything to do with the PC or networking industry I was on top of it. I bought manuals. I read every book and magazine. Then I would get involved with industry conferences and put myself out there.

Mark Cuban

Books are good enough in their own way but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.

Stephen Hawking

I don’t read books much.

LeBron James

Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch.

Marcus Aurelius

My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won’t let me sell a crappy book, even if I want to.

Sarah Dessen