Top 500 Book Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I’ve got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.”

— Yoko Ono

452. “Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names.”

— George R.R. Martin

453. “I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren’t in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.”

— Dolly Parton

454. “The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?”

— Dale Carnegie

455. “I’ve always been interested in science – one of my favourite books is James Watson’s ‘Molecular Biology of the Gene.’”

— Bill Gates

456. “When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on ‘What would happen to the world if there was no friction?’ Answer: ‘Everything on earth would fly into space from the centrifugal force of revolution.’ That was my mood.”

— Haruki Murakami

457. “I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me.”

— Nick Hornby

458. “I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.”

— John Steinbeck

459. “But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

460. “Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books, they seem to get handed down father to son, mother to daughter. Because they’re set in a fantasy world, they can remain relevant.”

— Stephen King

461. “Welcome to my world! I’ve been through it all, and I often pinch myself to believe my luck. I design jewlery, create cosmetics, perform comedy, act, lecture, write books, travel, have a fabulous daughter, and a phenomenal grandson-and I feel I’m the luckiest woman on the planet.”

— Joan Rivers

462. “Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.”

— Carl Sagan

463. “I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn’t make a penny, I worked so hard, didn’t drink, didn’t enjoy life.”

— Orhan Pamuk

464. “If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.”

— Ernest Hemingway

465. “Good authour Good books.”

— Roald Dahl

466. “Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.”

— John F. Kennedy

467. “In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.”

— Mark Twain

468. “I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.”

— Samuel Beckett

469. “If we lose our phones, we lose our phone books. You don’t memorize numbers anymore.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

470. “God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead.”

— James Baldwin

471. “There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

472. “I don’t want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!”

— Nick Hornby

473. “To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

474. “We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they’re badly read, too.”

— Nick Hornby

475. “I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.”

— John Lennon

476. “My problem is that I never get through the whole book. I skim through this one, that one, and then the other one.”

— Ice Cube

477. “You’re not allowed to say anything about books because they’re books, and books are, you know, God.”

— Nick Hornby

478. “Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.”

— Ellen Hopkins

479. “It isn't what the book costs. It's what it will cost you if you don't read it.”

— Jim Rohn

480. “The public library is more than a repository of books. It’s a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

481. “I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five.”

— Oscar Wilde

482. “I like to read books. I like to listen to music.”

— Haruki Murakami

483. “When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.”

— W. E. B. Du Bois

484. “If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.”

— Abraham Lincoln

485. “Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.”

— Stephen King

486. “I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book – something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.”

— Stephen King

487. “Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.”

— Mark Twain

488. “Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

489. “I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.”

— Bill Gates

490. “For a woman to be able to dominate and also be feminine and soft, that’s a talent. And its not all about appearance. A woman who has a brain, who is street-smart and book-smart, that woman is very, very sexy to me.”

— Usher

491. “Books were my pass to personal freedom.”

— Oprah Winfrey

492. “There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter when the rocking chair in front of the fire simply demands an accompanying book.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

493. “In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

494. “Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.”

— Stephen Hawking

495. “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!”

— Abraham Lincoln

496. “Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

497. “I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal.”

— Nick Hornby

498. “Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

499. “He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad things to you; but he had also read fairy tales, so he knew that there were kind people out there, side by side with the monsters.”

— Neil Gaiman

500. “My mistake was in ever opening the books.”

— Jack London