A Book Quotes

I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package, a gift package, a surprise package-and within the wrappings is a whole new world and beyond.

To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.

If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.

Nature's great book is written in mathematics.

An art book is a museum without walls.

I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task.

There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

All Sacred Scriptures is but one book, and that one book is Christ, because all divine Scripture speaks of Christ, and all divine Scripture is fulfilled in Christ.

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base

You might be a redneck if... the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.

Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.

In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

There is no book that has had as much opposition as the Bible. Men have laughed at it, they have scorned it, they have ridiculed it, they have made laws against it.

Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .

Who you are, what your values are, what you stand forthey are your anchor, your north star. You won't find them in a book. You'll find them in your soul.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

I don't like to read books. They muss up my mind.

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.

You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

If we expose kids to books and art, nothing but good can come from it.

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

Inside that book, it's my life-all the places where I'm hurting or I laughed or I cried or I prayed. And I've had to pray a lot!

I have met so many young people who do not see the church as relevant and do not consider the Bible a real book of history that can be trusted.

The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book.

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette."

There's a book called "The Sociopath Next Door." I thought most sociopaths were violent. In fact, they aren't. But almost all sociopaths want to win, no matter what.

All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out.

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free

When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.

Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

I do things differently, because I don't go by a rule book, because I lead from the heart, not the head, and albeit that's got me into trouble in my work, I understand that.

It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.

…the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.