#books

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#get #into #keep #main #mine

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#just #oldest #only #out #read

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#behavior #books #homosexual #laws #remain

No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them. ↗

— Jack L. Chalker

#blank #books #certainly #checks #i

Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards. ↗

— Christo

#books #photographs #postcards #posters #royalties

A home without books is a body without soul. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#books #home #soul #without

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#books #confide #dare #going #never

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#children #feelings #i #like #me

Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my children's books in a way I wouldn't dare when writing for adults. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#books #children #complicated #dare #i

Books are not men and yet they stay alive. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#books #men #stay #yet