Book Quotes

The final and full revelation of God is not a book, it is a person. Jesus Christ.

You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue.

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.

There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good.

In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.

I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.

My husband, Nick Chiles and I wrote a number of relationship books together, and what we found was that women were thirsty to hear directly from men.

I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.

Yes, it's true that you can't learn everything from books. But you do learn something about everything.

Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

My best friends are books, I can easily read them and take them wherever I go.

Do I read her books? Of course.

I take a slow sip of lukewarm coffee, reopen the book, and read the words scribbled in red ink near the top: Everyone needs an olly-olly-oxen-free.

There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people of the book, who really must be around.

Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.

I've worked out a Ninja Replacement Score for novels. It's basically the number of characters that need to be replaced by ninjas to make the book good.

I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.

Actually, the first thing I do is choose the antique that will be featured in each book. I try to find unusual objects with great stories. I am fascinated by the stories.

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.

I love comic books. I was weaned on them, so it's not like it's a stretch for me, but I have other interests, as well.

I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths.

The Kindle is just the razor. The books are the blades - ka-ching!

We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us.

You get used to it I suppose, but it's always a bit disappointing to see a comic referred to as 'by [writer]' and no one else.

It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library.

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.

Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been.

Many Americans have never owned a book, and I'm not talking about because of the recent digital revolution. I'm talking about before there even was a digital revolution.

There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.

For many years I had heard about an underworld consisting of people who act out a vampire fantasy while I was living in New York. Fortunately for me there are also several books on the phenomena.

The simplest science book is over my head.

In her new book, Sarah Palin says she once gave up chocolate for an entire year just to prove she could do it. Still think she's not qualified to be President?

I'm doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'. It was a book I read when I was younger, and it just changed my life, and I just wanted to be a part of it.

The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed.

There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.

It would be through individual effort, inspired perhaps by reading Nietzsche's books, that the Overman might emerge, not through social or educational engineering.

I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited about at the time.

I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done.

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.

Life is too short to read inferior books.

Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain in my book.

Do you know what they call people who hoard books? Smart.

If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.

There are so many elements and nuances from the books that are very hard to tell in the length of a movie.