From Book Quotes

Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.

When you are reading a book and you finish a chapter, you don’t keep re-reading the chapter you just finished. You move on to the next chapter to see what happens.

Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it.'

Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.

The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of its significance, it threatens infinity.

Everyone should write a book, if only to see how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you.

Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.

He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.

Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative.

The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is your own mind and heart.

Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them.

Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.

I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.

I will read four or five books at the same time.

I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.

It's a great time to book vacation travel for the winter, .. After the first of the year, airplanes are empty, resorts are empty, and they are very excited to get early bookings.

Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it.

It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds.

I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.

Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books.

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.

From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all.

Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.

For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is akin to asking one to recall their three favorite sunsets.

With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.

Everybody's different and every person is different and every actor's different and everybody has different wants and needs, but I'm a kid who loved comic books my whole life.

I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment

I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.

I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.

Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.

A bestseller is a book that non-book buyers buy

I know that my books are worthy, which is separate from me.

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

The Bible is wonderful. It's only one book, but you can put two grams of coke on top of the Bible, and you first take a line of coke and then you open the Bible. Because then you understand.

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.

I am always reading, always, and tons of things at once. I wouldn't say I'm a voracious reader, though. I never finish books that fast, because I'm always reading so many things at once.

I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things and I think I do that subconsciously when I'm reading books of poetry.

People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.

Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing -- nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person -- or of a friend -- no, even so, I think myself infallible.

I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.

I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.

Since the dawn of time every one will die, Let the history books note my death with loyalty at heart.

My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up.

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.

No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps.