From Book Quotes

There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.

With all the things I know, one could write a book... Although, one might also say that, considering all that I don’t know, one could create a library.

I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times.

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.

Books and beer are the best and worst defense.

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.

She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

Most of my painting is done sitting in a chair with a book. I'd say it's 80 per cent sitting and reading, 10 per cent eating and ten per cent painting.

I'm into books – I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.

Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous.

The continual mismanagement is what keeps us from enjoying the full pallet of emotions that truly enrich us. .

If you have positive energy you will always attract positive outcomes.

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.

Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.

I was really bummed when I got to the last one of Tony Hillerman Navajo detective books.

Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

The most important thing is to go out and see the stars, not to see them in books.

Time is a river, and books are boats.

Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try

My career is an open book, but my life is not.

Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.

The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love.

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.

That’s the beauty of books. We get to take what we want out of them and it can be different for everyone.

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

A star is extinguished, another will begin to shine - thus it is written in the Book of Nature

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.

You can learn investing by reading books.

From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is is possible that we live as though it is about us?

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.