A Book Quotes

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.

And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.

Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.

With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.

I keep my self updated by reading different books and encyclopedias.

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

I've done 80 books and if anyone has entertained the idea of owning one of my books, I think this is the book that covers all the bases. I'm very proud of it.

I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol. 1), you gotta tell the truth, and it can't be misinterpreted.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

He measures our lives by how we love.

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.

If you want to be happy, then it is within your grasp. The book you are holding can have a profound impact on your thinking and your attitude and can help you to do more, be more, and achieve more!

I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

Read comics. All comics. And then cut them open to steal their power.

Play the gayest tunes in your books, play them loud and keep on playing them, and never mind if a bullet goes through a trombone, or even a trombonist, now and then.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.

When I read the books, I imagined that the family of Ron Weasley was my family.

One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

Only your friends steal your books.

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

Every book changes my writing because I'm always trying to do something I didn't do before. I try to do what's hard for me, what I haven't done in the past.

There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world.

The book belongs to the author.

Don't judge me, I'm not a book.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes.

Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way

The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.

I've just finished my book, I wrote it on penguins. Come to think of it, paper would have been better.

my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways" from the book of Isaiah

You a slave to a page in my rhyme book.

Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.

The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The books are not only printed by machines; they are written by machines.

I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.

This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.

My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a home that was full of books. And so I learned to read. I loved to read.

In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.

When you want to read the book, come read the book. When you want to come talk to me and be my friend, come talk to me.

About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.

As long as I'm reading, I'm at home.

Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.

We don't just live in books awake and dreams asleep. We are living stories, you and I, with dreams inside us undeniable, with love to give and people to walk beside.