Book Quotes

We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly put it down.

Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.

'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.

I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.

As great a store Have we of books as bees of herbs or more.

There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

Books are sepulchres of thought.

There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.

Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

Everyone if so warm, and the children know my from the children's books. Their oldest siblings or young parents know me from "Here Comes the Groom" or "Waterboy."

Somebody said, 'Hey, there is a lull in your career. Why don't you write books about your [dyslexia]?' We are currently writing our 34th novel.

Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to send, And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend.

O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity.

We are indebted to the Book of books (Bible) for our national ideals and institution. Their preservation rests in adhering to it's precepts.

There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom.

I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.

Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

It is not simply a theological treatise, a code of laws, a religious homily, but the Bible - the book - while the only book for the soul, the best book for the mind

The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.

It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973].

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done.

I've been writing books without ego for a very long time. I feel like it will get what it deserves. Or won't get what it doesn't deserve.

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.

When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you are commissioned to do.

I loved Gore Vidal's Burr. That book gave me courage.

If I am feeling broken, I can pick up one of [Ivy Compton-Burnett] books and the next morning I can write again. It puts my mechanism back.

Thoth, Hermes, the stylus, the palette, the pen, the quill endure, though our books are a floor of smouldering ash under our feet.

An uplifting, fat-tastic voyage to self-love, Read My Hips made me realize that I no longer need to be weighed down by constantly judging my body. I devoured this book-it's deliciously inspiring!

I have written a book it's called "Stronger Together."

I think it's so important for all of us to be able to see ourselves represented in the books we read and the movies and TV shows we watch.

One of my favorite times was sitting reading quote books, which I did for hours on end.

I don't think I've read any of the books that have been written about me.

I thought of the structure as musical. The first piece, for instance, contains the names/subject matter of every person to come in the book. Like a piece of music with themes, etc.

I really don't think we should dismiss a book because we feel messed about intellectually. Or emotionally. That's the writer's job!

Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.

Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.

The better the book the more room for the reader.

A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.

It is my belief that books are living things.