A Book Quotes

Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight

Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.

Nobody had books at home. My dad was a very educated person, so he would have books at home. All Spanish books. That helped. Most of my homies had no books at home.

I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

The only way you can control people is to lie to them. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.

Don't read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student.

Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings.

The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for it by the insensitive.

No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.

My lack of access to the real world has been replaced completely by books, and it can’t be healthy to live in a land of happily ever afters.

The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.

A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were pushing one's own child out into the traffic.

As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

Too many people miss out on real love because they're too busy waiting for the ONE to show up

But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal.

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

A library is infinity under a roof.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens

The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book.

The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is like a soul, and that every soul should have its own body.

A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls

The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the feedback that you need to produce a good book.

One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take.

What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.

We read to know that we are not alone.

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

Every reader his or her book. Every book its reader.

Well, there's nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book.

It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

I don’t like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I’m alone with a good book.

My Wings are a thousand books.

There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.

Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.

To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.

The main thing I wanted to say, and thankfully it’s what most people say they get out of the book, is simply an acknowledgement that we do affect each other in ways we can’t predict.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".

Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.