Quotes about books

The inspiration of a single book has made preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the demoralization of a single book has sometimes made infidels, profligates, and criminals.

Orison Swett Marden

There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.

Søren Kierkegaard

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

Agatha Christie

I’ve read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I’ve made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.

Donald Trump

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

Thomas Carlyle

Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.

Nicholas Sparks

I managed to get my copy of Ulysses through safely this time. I rather wish I had never read it. It gives me an inferiority complex. When I read a book like that and then come back to my own work, I feel like a eunuch who has taken a course in voice production.

George Orwell

In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year’s change in intrinsic value.

Warren Buffett

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Laws die, books never.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton