From Book Quotes

I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book. They are only sorry they did not write it sooner.

Success is a decision, not a gift.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

The Book of Mormon is true, just what it purports to be, and for this testimony I expect to give an account in the day of judgment.

Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.

Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people.

My longest love affair: with a book.

I'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel.

I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.

For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates.

I hope Anne's book will have an effect on the rest of your life so that insofar as it is possible in your own circumstances, you will work for unity and peace.

The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.

The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

I don't want to be shut out from the truth. If they ban books, they might as well lock us away from the world.

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

Life is too short to read a bad book.

I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself.

One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature.

Why don't we all just get a long-neck?

Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.

If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

Like books and black lives - albums still matter. Tonight and always.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.

If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?

A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.

Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them. It is within that we should write, think, and speak, not merely on paper.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy!

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.

I want the whole Christ for my Savior, the whole Bible for my book, the whole Church for my fellowship, and the whole world for my mission field.

Somebody threw a book at President Obama. If you're trying to scare a president by throwing a book at him, you're one president too late.

Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?