From Book Quotes

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.

You could be writing the book that changes your life.

If you're an open book, there's no allure.

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

I learned to write from authors. I didn't know any, but I read their books.

To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

I do admit to mocking atheists, because mockery is a legitimate form of debate according to my rule Book. God Himself mocks evil men who refuse His moral government (see Proverbs 1:26-27).

To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.

I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.

Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I'm looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books.

You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.

...the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

You are a volume in the divine book A mirror to the power that created the universe Whatever you want, ask it of yourself Whatever you’re looking for can only be found Inside of you

As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man, I have chalked up many a mile. Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, and I learned much from both of their styles.

The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin pocket books from old ladies

It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.

Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands.

Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I’ve read so often that I’ve internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.

I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.

They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!

Mary is the Mysterious Book of Predestination to glory.

Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up.

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious.

There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child

You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.

It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.

If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.