From Book Quotes

Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

I like being at home with my music and my books. I’ve done all the partying, I’ve done enough partying for four or five people as a young fella. But now I like the quiet life.

In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing to say, but it is our conclusion.

The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.

I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.

I do recall how I got the ideas for some of my books. Many of them are a result of doodling.

The Bible is not such a book a man would write if he could, or could write if he would.

Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them.

I believe God wrote the Word in your essence. That's the genius of my Father. You are born knowing right from wrong. You don't need a book to tell you that!

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

A library is where ideas sleep between covers, waiting for you to discover them.

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

I want to do something important in my life, and I think that adding beauty to the world with books... really is important.

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

What a blessing it is to love books.

People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.

Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me.

I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers.

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

There's no rules. Show me the rule book.

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment.

Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.

The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.

Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

Being poor is only romantic in books.

At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

Dishonest, which is Hillary Clinton in the eyes of the American people, beats crazy. Dishonest loses to normal. So, let's just pick somebody out of the phone book if we have to.

Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.

We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material.

I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.

I've read every one of Donald Goines' books. So as soon as I heard there was an opportunity for one of his novels to be turned into a movie, I jumped at the opportunity.

I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.

The Bible's the greatest book ever written. But I sure don't need anybody I can buy for six bits and a chew of tobacco to explain it to me.

I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.