Book Quotes

I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" .

How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.

42% of college graduates never read a book after college.

In the book [Today Matters] I talk about successful people make important decisions early in their life, and then they manage those decisions the rest of their life.

There are pockets of the church that will "give up," and reap a bountiful harvest. They are going to have huge success, like the church has never experienced since the Book of Acts.

I was greatly affected by a guy named Rob Briner, who died about five years ago, who wrote a book called "Roaring Lambs", which is a book on how to be salt and light in the secular community.

I tried to write the book [Today Matters] with integrity and say, health is one of my daily dozen, and I work on it, but I don't have this right.

I wrote the book [Today Matters] because I have a passion to help people personally grow. Really what it is, it's a personal growth book.

I jotted down Oslo After Death. This would be a great title for a book, I thought. That is what I do sometimes. I jot down titles for books that I one day intend to write.

It's fun to just skim through piles of books in the stacks of a library.

When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than exists between dwellers under the same roof.

He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.

There is no better indicators of character than the books you have.

Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable.

Remember that a book is many drafts - mine certainly are. It's improvisation. It's as much jazz and the way we talk and the way I heard people preach coming up as it is writing.

Hell, I'm going to play pro basketball. I'm going to maybe be famous. I'm going to write books.

So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.

My freind is the man who gives me a book I aint read."Abraham Linclion

Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews.

It isn't. The Book of Abraham is not central to the restored gospel of Christ.

I would love to write a book that opens people's eyes to the more interesting side.

I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.

A lot of books are sold and given away as presents. But who actually reads and enjoy reading?

If you see our best seller list, most of them are books that are given as gifts. They are books you give to flatter somebody.

I think one should express opinions and these books are relatively opinionated. They would be a bit dry without it.

It never stops me from saying what I want to say about Ethiopia, the fact that a tour company is paid for me to go there. Book reviewers don't pay for the books they review.

You could start a small fire... with [photo] books I hate, and use that light to look at mine.

Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.

That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us.

Books are like tweets, except longer.

I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable.

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

They belong to their readers now, which is a great thing–because the books are more powerful in the hands of my readers than they could ever be in my hands.

In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album.

How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.

I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that world. Nothing ever gets a chance.

Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.

The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.

My name became a brand and I'd love to say it was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since.

When I wrote 'Marley & Me,' I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my book for adults and assumed only adults, and possibly teenagers, would be drawn to it.

Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book.

I was incredibly depressed and I found myself avoiding doing interviews where my [20-something daughters] could hear me - or leaving books on the coffee table they could see.

It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the proper alembic be applied.

A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.