Book Quotes · Page 188

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

— George Bernard Shaw

My philosophy is pretty simple – any day nobody’s trying to kill me is a good day in my book.

— Karen Marie Moning

Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.

— Galileo Galilei

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

— Aleister Crowley

If life was a book I would read it all then re-read the amazing chapters.

— Damien Cantrell

Take your hands off her, Sinclair told the guy behind me, Or they'll write books about what I'll do to you.

— MaryJanice Davidson

“Every book tells a story, so you better be ready for the adventure.”

— Jessica Kinney

Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

— Laverne Cox

The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is…

— Donald C. Peattie

Before 'Wings' came out, I told a few people that at the end of book one, readers should think Laurel made the…

— Aprilynne Pike

If I'm reading a book by a footballer I don't want to read about games, how he scored or played well. People…

— Jamie Carragher

Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides…

— Alex Flinn

I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly…

— Mac Barnett

It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching - it is what the books will get…

— Anonymous

“I hate how books do this to you. They destroy your soul, pick and prod them till the bleed, stab your eyes…

— Darby Browne

“I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own…

— Amy Plum

It is not the number of books you read; nor the variety of sermons which you hear; nor the amount of religious…

— Frederick William Robertson

I never wanted to do Harry Potter. I thought it should have stayed as a book. There are some books that should…

— Haley Joel Osment

Books can be passed around. They can be shared. A lot of people like seeing them in their houses. They are memories.…

— Daniel Goldin

“Oh, Kenneth, Kenneth, believe me - there's nothing I'd rather do! I want like hell to tell you. But I can't. I…

— Christopher Isherwood

Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that…

— Anonymous

My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

There is not enough Bible-reading among us. It is not sufficient to have the Book. We must actually READ it, and PRAY…

— J. C. Ryle

I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's…

— Sherman Alexie

“People who read books," he went on, "tend to be dispensable. Extremely.”

— Ninni Holmqvist

I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.

— Keri Russell

I always feel very afraid as I work on books. It's just so hard to write a decent book!

— Jennifer Egan

You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.

— Katherine Paterson

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.

— Anonymous

“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

— Oscar Wilde

I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

— Dan Wakefield

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

— Harrison Ford

“I’d rather be an unknown book in the library of time, than a bestseller in the store of mankind.”

— Stephan Attia

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

— Jean Webster

I don't want to write books that are intellectually staggering if nobody's going to read them.

— Simon Singh

The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.

— Henry James

I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.

— Alice Walker

“A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.”

— Anonymous

Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.

— Lewis Buzbee