A Book Quotes

I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it for six months. I came back and I tried to make it into a movie, without success.

I'm very comfortable with myself and my sexuality, but it doesn't define me. I also read books believe it or not.

Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.

I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

All the things I've read in my school books about England and the Queen were okay, but my eyes are the greatest book in the world.

I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either intended or even understood.

Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

A good book written for children can be read by adults

If you are anything like me --- Clever, fond of goat cheese, and devilishly handsome --- then you have undoubtedly read many books.

Elend: I kind of lost track of time… Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved.

I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.

...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.

Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.

Jack Benny really liked my book. I know because he called me up from the library and told me.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

It's a difficult thing when you try and make a film of a book that you really love. You have about two hours to tell the story, and it's never going to be enough.

A good book is an education of the heart.

Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

Nay, if there be any mistakes in the Bible, there may as well be a thousand. If there be one falsehood in that book, it did not come from the God of truth

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.

What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them.

I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.

I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.

For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.

A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.

The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.