Quotes about books

I do things differently, because I don’t go by a rule book, because I lead from the heart, not the head, and albeit that’s got me into trouble in my work, I understand that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Realisation is real religion, all the rest is only preparation – hearing lectures, or reading books, or reasoning is merely preparing the ground; it is not religion.

Swami Vivekananda

More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.

Helen Keller

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained form actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

Samuel Smiles

You don’t go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before all the details of who it is, where it is, are so intertwined in that text that it’s easier to write it from scratch.

Bill Gates

I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.

Winston Churchill

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Samuel Smiles

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.

Nelson Mandela

Re examine all you have been told in school and in church Or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Walt Whitman