Book Quotes

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

You will learn more from your friends than you ever will from books. Choose your friends wisely

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.

I read in a book that a man called Christ went about doing good. It is very disconcerting to me that I am so easily satisfied with just going about.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

If you preachers would start winning souls everywhere you go, you wouldn't have to get a book of illustrations to preach from next Sunday.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books - mine included - because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened.

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

Flavor Five is a book with recipes using five ingredients to possibly be cooked in just five minutes. It will be very user-friendly for the home cook on the run.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't fill it, it's useless.

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.

I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.

We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.

Pouring out liquor is like burning books.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book.

The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.

People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

When the bird and the book disagree, believe the bird.

The Book of Job is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of nature. Leviathan is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of the state.

It is a great feeling to know that from a window I can go to books to cans of beer to past loves. And from these gather enough dream to sneak out a back door.

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.