A Book Quotes

A street that you have never visited is a book that you have never read! You never know what you are missing!

I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for the auditors and then there's the other one.

I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.

A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.

I discovered you can get closer to a characters thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.

If the very thought of taking off all your clothes in the middle of the Washington Mall during a school holiday makes you blush, you haven't even begun to dream what it feels like to publish a book.

The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.

We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.

The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to a bookstore to find what you weren't looking for.

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.

I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

Success is walking out of here with the title, and anything less is not good enough in my book.

You can read me like a book. If I'm not having a good time, which is very rare, then you'll know.

But I like all the books. You've got to read them all to get the complete Harry Potter experience.

Most of the books call Her a He, but I am able to ascertain what is meant, despite that semantic error.

This is perhaps the most important book on evolutionary genetics ever written

That is why the center of our faith isn't just a book, but a history of Salvation, and above all, it's about a person: Jesus Christ, the Word of God made flesh.

Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

In the book of things people more often do wrong than right, investing must certainly top the list, followed closely by wallpapering and eating artichokes

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

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.

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

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

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.

People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality.

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, "now what?

Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.

I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.

A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to his loving Pythias. A book that — at a touch — pours its heart into our own.

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.

As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.

Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read.