From Book Quotes

I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars. Whenever I sank into them I felt free.

I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what its like to really adore something.

Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written.

Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.

I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level.

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.

All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.

One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires.

I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.

At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done.

I used to read every golf magazine front to back; I was addicted to Golf Channel, read Rotella, read every golf book.

Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.

The grave's a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there.

I'm happy if my book makes you want to kiss your family... if we can reconcile with each other no matter where we are on the globe.

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.

Everything I know I learned by listening and watching. Nowadays people learn out of books instead. Doctors study what man has learned. I pray to understand what man has forgotten.

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.

I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.

I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order.

Yet when the books have been read, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty books a year.

Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.

There are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type just has to urinate on the electric fence himself.

The research in Ralph Keyes' The Quote Verifier is impressive, and each conclusion is like the solution to a real-life historical mystery. Who knew a reference book could be so entertaining?

One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet.

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

The world of conceptualized ideas is quite wonderful, even when it's - like Aristotle's Physics - an outmoded book. The physics is not true. But the reasoning is dazzling.

Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'

To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book

Within the book and volume of thy brain.

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.

Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.

I heard that Trump said even smelling a book makes him feel tired.

What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.

My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.

The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.