Books Quotes · Page 167

Life is a book, you can't start a new chapter if you keep rereading the last.

— Anonymous

Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“When friends stab you in the back, books can help it out”

— Olivia Patches

I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth.

— Brian Hodge

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

— Henry David Thoreau

“It was like living entirely inside a book.”

— Diane Setterfield

The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.

— Washington Irving

“Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma.”

— Kelly Armstrong

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

— Lytton Strachey

The atonement chapter [from the book Saving Calvinism] shows how there are real riches in Reformed theology that most Christians today have…

— Oliver D. Crisp

There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any... on how…

— Robert M. Gates

Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.

— A. S. Byatt

I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong…

— Rick Riordan

“Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity.”

— Donald J. Bingle

The Kindle app runs on iPads, BlackBerry, and Android devices, so you can read your books wherever you want; with Apple, you're…

— Daniel Lyons

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

— William S. Burroughs

“Reading is a dialog with oneself; it is self-reflection, which cultivates profound humanity. Reading is therefore essential to our development. It expands…

— Daisaku Ikeda

What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature,…

— Harvey Keitel

Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going,…

— William Golding

“Toward the end of his book, Miller explains his need to unite science and religion: science does not explain the meaning and…

— G.M. Jackson

“Death: I know, or I think I know that death will only be nothingness, but I don’t want oblivion yet. I want…

— Ann Kelley

“When I Read the Book" When I read the book, the biography famous, And is this then (said I) what the author…

— Walt Whitman

For the Tintin books were my emotional universe. To read them felt quite simply like being loved: in advance and by an…

— Luke Davies

But to make the intangible tangible, to pick the emotion out of the air and make it true for others, is both…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty.

— Anonymous

The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

— Jenny Han

“A classic is read not to enjoy but only to be boast about it.”

— Aman Jassal

I read a book in 2005 called 'Think and Grow Rich' that changed my life.

— Bob Backlund

One of my brothers read a lot. His head was forever in some book.

— Malcolm X

“The misery of having no time to read a thousand glorious books.”

— George Gissing

That's what this country needs -- more books!

— Christopher Morley

“I enjoy reading books by way of subtitles from the movies they got made into.”

— Jarod Kintz

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.

— Norman Lock

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

— Irving Stone

A good motivational book recommended for every goal-oriented young adult

— Abegunde Sunday Olaoluwa

“Read a book then forget the names of characters in it except lead character.”

— Hibis

Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.

— Anthony Trollope

I think reading the novels definitely was a good source for me to study from.

— Laura Vandervoort

It's very nice to meet the people who read my books.

— Peter Mayle