A Book Quotes

Not everybody has time to pay attention fully, or not everybody has the time to read a book. Some people refuse to read books, and I'm just an unread book. Open me!

In water, like in books—you can leave your life.

The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than your own.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds. I put this book here for you, who once lived So that you should visit us no more.

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

Making mountains out of molehills sells more books than a study of molehills.

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.

Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.

The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.

I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.

There is no frigate like a book

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable.

Am I a guy who writes about himself in a comic book, or am I just a character in that book? If I die, will that character keep going, or will he just fade away?

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.

I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.

That’s all you really hope for from a book – that it’s going to resonate with young people and empower them in some way. I believe poetry can get kids reading.

Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.

I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds.

Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

All of my books come from pain.

Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something special.

Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.

Everything inspires me. It could be a movie. It could be a book. It could be a house. It could be one word - I'll think for hours and hours about one word sometimes. It could be anything.

In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.

Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?

Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.

What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical.

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson.

Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print.

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities.

Also "Catcher in the Rye", which happens to be one of my favorite books, I just found that kind of useful. It helps you get into the American accent.

There are so many ways in which we learn about life and the self. Each day opens paths to this exploration. For many of us, books play a major role in that adventure

What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.

Why isn't there a book about someone losing their faith and it being a beautiful experience?