Book Quotes · Page 147

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

— George Bernard Shaw

A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

— Carl Sagan

One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.

— John Muir

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

— Hermann Hesse

“Give me an atlas over a guidebook any day. There is no more poetic book in the world.”

— Judith Schalansky

There comes a moment which you must decide whether to skip the page or close the book, it's your decision.

— Anonymous

There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

— Anne Bronte

I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.

— Diana Vreeland

I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his…

— Mickey Spillane

Be it a trip to the dentist, getting an injection or even coming home with a good report card, my reward always…

— Sonam Kapoor

Dylan Landis knows how to unnerve a reader, even as she's appreciating being unnerved. Rainey Royal thrums with sex and power. A…

— Mary Kay Zuravleff

I always tell people it's funny that they think I'm a relationship expert because my two books are about getting out of…

— Greg Behrendt

He trailed off as he saw the books. Piles and stacks of them beside the sofa, another stack on the coffee table,…

— Nora Roberts

“If life was a book; every day would be a new page, every month would be a new chapter, and every year…

— Elizabeth Duivenvoorde

My first short story, which you may find under the same title in booktracks. Do read it at your will and I…

— Ramandeep Singh

I never write with any kind of message, and I don't think that this book, 'Goodbye, Stranger' has a message in the…

— Rebecca Stead

All of my books have an element of a man who is in love with somebody and needs them desperately, not just…

— Gary Shteyngart

“I remarked in the original Preface to this Book, that I did not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from…

— Charles Dickens

If your father, who is known for carrying around a belt, told you to read a book, you went and did it.…

— Kwame Alexander

The Bible is not a book of magic. It's a book of mystery. You can't just quote verses that support your prejudices…

— Mel White

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by…

— Joseph Brodsky

Summer came. For the book thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews. When their bodies…

— Markus Zusak

I don't need every book to have female creators, I don't care if there are books that appeal mostly to guy readers.…

— Gail Simone

You've got to be a good reader. So whatever genre that you're interested in, read a lot of books about it and…

— Homer Hickam

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart.

— Harvey Mackay

If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done.

— Sara Sheridan

I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.

— Harvey Pekar

Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas.

— Emil Ruder

Books were my Internet, my TV, my movies all rolled into one.

— John Edgar Wideman

“someone who lends his book is stupid, but one who returns it is stupider”

— Darmanto Jatman

I have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport.

— Jonathan Weeks

I've never read a self help book... the most self-help I've read is on a beer mat.

— Ophelia Lovibond

“This book is about a salvation that takes place within our unknowing and dissatisfaction,”

— Peter Rollins

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

— Emma Donoghue

The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed.

— Sherwood Anderson

You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.

— John Green

“She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.”

— Hilda Van Stockum

I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha!

— Brian Jacques

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

— H. G. Wells