Quotes about books

No magic rune is stranger than a book. All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. They are the chosen possession of men.

Thomas Carlyle

I’m 100 percent original, and that’s what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.

Tupac Shakur

There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good.

Jean-Paul Sartre

All of my books began as sermons, so really the heart of the message is still the same.

Max Lucado

All of my sermons become books. I’ve been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation.

Max Lucado

At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it’s a challenge to pull any idea together. On these days I go to my studio, leaf through an art history book, and tell myself that I am part of this great tradition.

James Dean

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Marilyn Monroe

Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books.

Theodore Roosevelt

I collect books, and I love libraries. I love bookstores. And to me meeting a writer is important. And when I saw a book with my name on it I almost passed out.

Angelina Jolie

I shall always feel respect for every one who has written a book, let it be what it may, for I had no idea of the trouble which trying to write common English could cost one-And alas there yet remains the worst part of all correcting the press.

Charles Darwin