A Book Quotes

They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em.

Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets.

I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.

I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him

I took that bible and I went home and I held it up and I said God, I really don't know you and I don't know myself and I don't know life, but I believe the answers are in this book.

You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into artistic crises, they keep my life interesting.

You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.

I will say I am the sum of my books.

We read books to find out who we are.

You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death.

Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?

The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.

This year, more people will use cocaine than will read a book to their children.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

We have preserved the book, and the book has preserved us.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book.

Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids!

I read that book Fat is a Feminist issue, got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.

A children's book is the perfect place where young readers can understand the world because they can take a deep breath and look at it and imagine and contemplate while they're looking at.

I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.

"Keep your hands to yourself!" might almost be put at the head of the first chapter of every book on etiquette.

There are only two kinds of math books: Those you cannot read beyond the first sentence, and those you cannot read beyond the first page.

My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

If my life has got a book, I will write a word 'Super Junior' the biggest in it.

Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.

Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians and so-called experts.

Never trust anybody with only one book.

Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.

Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.

If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together?

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon

Books don’t change the world, people change the world, books only change people.

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

The love I knew was from books.

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read.

A bit of advice: never read a pop-up book about giraffes.