From Book Quotes

The thing about me and books is that whichever one I’m reading always reminds me of whatever’s happening in my life during that time.

Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.

To read too many books is harmful.

It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.

I firmly believe every book was meant to be written.

Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned.

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.

Travel is like a good challenging book: It demands presentness-the ability to live completely in the moment.

If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

My brother-in-law wrote an unusual murder story. The victim got killed by a man from another book.

Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done.

A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.

So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own.

Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. Our shoes are a disgrace.

I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega.

I remember a lot of dreams. Sometimes they are hard to distinguish from what has really happened. That is not so terrible. It is the same with books.

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.

My purpose is to create a mirror for the reader to see themselves, to create a light for people to see themselves in the characters, pictures, and stories. So they resonate.

Books are keys that open many doors -- James Rollins

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

I think one thing I've learned, as dorky and obvious as this sounds: People who like cool books are usually really cool people.

The book should act as a window to the word.

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!

One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.

I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.

I’m not interested in teaching books by women.

Libraries are the future of reading.

There is no radical or moderate Islam. There is only one Islam and that is the Islam from the Koran, the holy book. That is the Islam from Mohammed. There are no two sorts of Islam.

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

I know that there is not in the world a more subtle poison than that which is extracted from and administered by books.

Books didn't make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.

Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.

Great fashion is all about surprise. It should always be about doing something that isn't by the book.

I have read your book and much like it.

Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence cannot be defined in terms of the qualities of a book or picture.

A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love.

There are things in the Old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible Word of God, and receive its teachings as inspired by the Holy Spirit.

Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves.

I didn't get that power from gunz..coz there's no gunz in jail..I got that power from books and from thinking and strategizing...... That's what I want little niggaz to see.

Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures.

It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book.

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that time in your life.

I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it.