From Book Quotes

Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.

Unfortunate and wretched are those who have respected a book they did not love and hated those they did.

The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others.

I'm very English really. I even ordered a book on the internet, 'how to have absolutely nothing to do with your neighbors'. Unfortunately I was out when it was delivered.

I always have a few different books going at once.

I learned to read when I was three, so I skipped right over picture books and didn't learn to appreciate art in books until much later.

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

It's not how many books you get through, it's how many books get through you.

When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books.

Books dont need batteries

The most invigorating form of reading matter is, of course, a will.

When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.

No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is.

Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your pleasure and blessing, as well as responsibility!

I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

Most of my books are about contemporary subjects, and the world changes so fast that I'm lucky when events haven't overtaken the book I'm writing at the moment.

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

Apple makes beautiful products. I own a Mac Pro, a Mac Book, a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, pretty much the entire collection.

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.

You're only as good as your last book.

My favorite business book of all time is experience.

I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally. I like boys' things, spies and the Cold War.

A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.

I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.

Am I allowed to ask my book / whether it's true I wrote it?

You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

I read as many books about the psychology of a psychopath as I could and I researched what exactly happens to soldiers.

That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself.

The consumer mentality - we like something, what other flavor does it come in? We like that TV show, does it come in a book form? Does it come in a capsule? How about a soup?

In a social studies class I did a paper on the history of Attica, which ended up being a little book that I created.

It took me 40 years to write my first book.

Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.

He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. He had decided, the night before, that he would be as much an adventurer as the ones he had admired in books.

We're just like a movie based on a book-- almost, but not quite as good.

The share price must be less than book value. Preferably it will be less than net working capital less long term debt.

He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read.

My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending.

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always have a sense of humour.

The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface.

Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock.

This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.

I honestly believe there is absolutely nothing like going to bed with a good #book; or a friend who's #read one.

USE COMMON SENSE. If somebody offers you a thousand dollars for this book, chances are their motives are not pure. Then again, a thousand dollars is a lot of money. Take the money and run.

I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first.