Oprah Winfrey Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Education, Book, Reading

• Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Book, Reading, Shoes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Books were my pass to personal freedom.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Book, Reading, Black History Month

• When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Book, Reading, Mississippi

• Even as a kid, my memories are of books taking me out of myself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Memories, Book, Kids

• When I didn't have friends, I had books.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Book

• I am disappointed by this controversy surrounding A Million Little Pieces because I rely on the publishers to define the category that a book falls within and also the authenticity of the work.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Book, Fall, Littles

  "CNN Larry King Live". Interview With James Frey, transcripts.cnn.com. January 11, 2006.

• I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a valiant attempt but it did not work - to do the same thing with documentaries that we had done with the book club [in 2011]. The zeitgeist wasn't ready. It just wasn't ready.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Book, Trying, Done

  Source: wwd.com

• I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say."

  Oprah Winfrey

  Book, Years, Lunch

  Source: wwd.com

• I also like some of Joel Osteen's work. I think he's now doing a book about one of my favorite sermons of his, "The Power of 'I Am.' " I just love that sermon.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Book, Thinking, My Favorite

  Source: www.aarp.org

• I can't imagine I could have become the person I am now without books. Books became synonymous with freedom. They showed that you could open doors and walk through.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Book, Doors, Imagine

• It has become harder and harder to find books on a monthly basis that I feel absolutely compelled to share, .. I will continue featuring books on the 'Oprah Winfrey Show' when I feel they merit my heartfelt recommendation.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Book, Heartfelt, Merit

  "Chat queen Oprah shelves her TV book club" by David Teather, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2002.

• Books showed me there were possibilities in life, that there were actually people like me living in a world I could not only aspire to but attain. Reading gave me hope. For me, it was the open door.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Book, Reading, Doors

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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