Book Quotes · Page 132

Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.

— Alberto Manguel

A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.

— Sven Birkerts

A book very much is the center of the road, so people always can refer back to it.

— Sakyong Mipham

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

— T. S. Eliot

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

— Christine Feehan

Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.

— Mae West

I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music.

— Nat Hentoff

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

— Malala Yousafzai

The basic challenge of any book is you know you're going to be working on it for three or four years or…

— Bill Bryson

“It’s hard to believe there are people that don’t read books. There’s so much magic in words and well told stories.”

— C. Toni Graham

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we…

— Laura Bush

I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too…

— George Packer

When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.

— Neil Gaiman

The truly wise man is he who believes the Bible against the opinions of any man. If the Bible says one thing,…

— R. A. Torrey

This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we…

— Laini Taylor

“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let…

— Winston S. Churchill

But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas,…

— Lauren Willig

Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read…

— Anonymous

But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the…

— Axel Munthe

The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is…

— Paul Johnson

For such a long time, when you're a writer, you really are just writing for yourself, and maybe a few friends. So…

— Cassandra Clare

I used to think when I had children that somebody else had the rule book and they hadn't given it to me,…

— Danielle Steel

Writing a comic book series, you're so reliant on whoever the artist is. It truly is collaboration.

— James Gunn

For me, as a fan, when I read book series, I tend to be the most judgmental of the last book.

— Marie Lu

I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“i like the book my bloody life because it tell what gange related do and what makeks them feel bad ”

— Sanchez Raymundo

You need to cultivate love for books, it doesn't come to everyone naturally.

— Lara Dutta

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

— Aleister Crowley

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

— Galileo Galilei

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— George Bernard Shaw

“A real book is not one that’s read, but one that reads us.”

— Amit Tiwari

Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.

— Jessamyn West

There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.

— Jonathan Carroll

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for…

— Dick Bruna

A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.

— Caroline Mytinger

“another book is another dimension. another life full of imagination.”

— Kevin Armando

The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.

— Saint Augustine