A Book Quotes

There are enough women to do the childbearing and the childrearing. I know of none who can write my books.

The books for young people say a great deal about the selection of Friends; it is because they really have nothing to say about Friends. They mean associates and confidants merely.

I hope never to retire. I write so many because it's the thing I like to do most - to write. And if you write every day, you just naturally get a lot of books.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.

our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read

Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book

Life doesn't come with an instruction book; that's why we have fathers.

The most revealing books are the Holy Koran and the Holy Bible. The Bhagavad Gita is a great book as well, and the works of Buddha. These are the major influences on the world.

To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.

No one who writes a good book is really dead.

No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.

Read books, discover the blues and don't Tweet.

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.

Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.

I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.

Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.

The love ofChrist is my prayer-book

Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.

I can't think of any flower that wouldn't be suitable to merge with an image of a newborn, and as I was planning for the book, Miracle, I was drawn to blossoms that appealed to me artistically.

And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.

The business of books is the business of life.

One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.

I have a bad habit of picking up books about drugs, but that's better than having a drug habit, I think.

I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one would want me to talk anyway.

The Bible is one book, written by one Author, with one subject: Jesus Christ and the salvation God...provides through Him.

I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.

Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.

The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

May books and nature be their early joy!

Every word I say, you can document it and put it in the history books.

In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.

I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.

Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.

The Bible is not for the people; whosoever will be saved must renounce it. It is a forbidden book. Bible societies are satanic contrivances.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.