Book Quotes · Page 19

Books will always be there for you.

— Cassandra Clare

I don't write books inadvertently.

— A. N. Wilson

“You can't write a book in Heaven”

— Don Newman

Good readers make much out of little.

— Irving Howe

Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.

— Markus Zusak

You can't be a change-maker by reading a book.

— Bill Drayton

Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.

— Anonymous

The first sentence of a book is a promise.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

— Karin Slaughter

How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.

— Isaac Watts

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.

— Dean Koontz

If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it.

— John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara

“the thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read.”

— Donald Barthelme

A book does not make bad jokes, drink too much or eat more than you can afford to pay for.

— Kenneth Turan

You'll never go to the library and find a book on how to fail, because we all do it.

— Rush Limbaugh

Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.

— George Gilfillan

... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow…

— Charles Dickens

I like to pretend that each book is my first one and last one, because it takes a tremendous amount of energy…

— Jan Brett

I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a…

— Terry Pratchett

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let…

— Thomas Jefferson

The tone of every book is slightly different; there's a music that each has that is distinct from all the others.

— Paul Auster

There are major writers who have written books [based on my research]. If one looks carefully at the copyright page, you'll see…

— Lawrence Schiller

As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man…

— Elena Ferrante

I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for…

— Helen Keller

The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't…

— Simon Schama

[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

I want people to fill their minds with passages of Scripture while they are well and strong, that they may have sure…

— J. C. Ryle

“I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands…

— Mark Twain

The common thread of the series is that these are the books that Elephant and Piggie like to read. Elephant and Piggie…

— Mo Willems

There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone…

— Alain de Botton

There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.

— Gary Shteyngart

The world was hers for the reading.

— Betty Smith

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

— Arthur Helps

“Every reader his [or her] book.”

— S. R. Ranganathan

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.

— Ezra Pound

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

— Gunter Grass

Friendship is probably the most common form of love.

— Steig Larsson

I'm amazed how the tiniest moments grow into books.

— Kimberly Willis Holt