Book Quotes · Page 136

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection...

— Carl Jung

Indeed, every book on my shelves is a key to a little vault of memories.

— Anthony Doerr

You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

— Mark Twain

I read 'Animal Farm' when I was 11, and it remained my favorite book, really.

— Martin Freeman

I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.

— Michael Connelly

All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Norman MacCaig

“those in the next book! Here you will find my ideas for simple”

— Louise Westerhout

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell…

— Christopher Morley

I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make…

— Deb Caletti

I never thought that Spider-Man would become the world wide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and…

— Stan Lee

They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the…

— Anonymous

We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do…

— Oswald Chambers

When self-publishing started, it was mostly people who really couldn't write. And they just wanted to get their book out, and they…

— Caroline Leavitt

If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little romance between two slave…

— Mohsin Hamid

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until…

— Eugene Field

Yeah I was aware of the book, but hadn't read it. So as soon as I'd finished the script, I got a…

— Eric Bana

I tended to give a book a chance and another chance and another, sometimes seeing it all the way to the end,…

— Deb Caletti

When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that…

— Madeleine L'Engle

He was beastly tired, but it was hard to stop. One more book, he had told himself, then I'll stop. One more…

— Anonymous

We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The sound of her phone shocked her out of the dark world that was currently playing in front of her eyes from…

— Allie Burke

Supposing you've got an acute appendicitis. You've got to be operated on tonight. Would you like to have a surgeon who's read…

— David Ogilvy

The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the…

— Thomas Mann

“study: The reading of books or examination of other materials to gain knowledge. Page 5.”

— Sean Clouden

Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.

— J. C. Ryle

That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.

— Heinrich Heine

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

— Ernest Hemingway

I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.

— Alistair Maclean

Some of my best book recommendations have come from booksellers.

— Sabaa Tahir

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

— Rebecca West

“as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century”

— Oscar Wilde

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

— Cornelia Funke

Mrs. Palin has neither pushed for creationism in Alaska schools nor moved to ban a single book in Wasilla.

— Andrew Breitbart

I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different.

— Josh Lieb

Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.

— Robin Sloan

I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.

— Zayn Malik

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

— Cyril Connolly

“A book is a success when people who haven't read it pretend they have.”

— Los Angeles Times

Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book.

— John Bosco