Book Quotes · Page 160

“God is not a thief. That which steals, kills and destroys is the devil - not God!”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

— Lois Lowry

“When you read a book, you don't give up on it. You might soon feel like your part of the story.”

— Kiersten White

What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?

— Francis Collins

“(Never) judge a book by its cover or a woman by her kitchen.”

— Cindy Woodsmall

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

— Jane Austen

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

— Malcolm X

I read graphic novels, here and there, but I'm not a comic book guy, as much.

— Zachary Levi

Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg is a great book teaching a compassionate way to talk to people even if you (or they)…

— Joe Vitale

My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that…

— Lisi Harrison

I try to answer all my fan mail. Sometimes I get questions from people who obviously only read the Wiki but haven't…

— Cassandra Clare

It is a great feeling to know that from a window I can go to books to cans of beer to past…

— Gregory Corso

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this…

— Louis Kahn

Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than…

— Will Self

You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old…

— Shelby Lynne

“I was not gentle on my books. I read while I ate, I read in the bathtub. At night, I rolled over…

— Georgia Bell

“Knowledge drifts in and out of my mind", said Lestat with a little look of honest distress and a shake of his…

— Anne Rice

I didn't read a book until I was 31 years old when I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Books terrified me. They made…

— Henry Winkler

There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the…

— Stephen King

If you see in all my books, I have two key intentions. One is obviously to entertain and make sure that the…

— Ravi Subramanian

“Books are like people: fascinating, inspiring, thought-provoking, some laugh, some meditate, others ache with old age, but still have wisdom: some are…

— Gladys Hunt

None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book…

— Irvin D. Yalom

I was doing great plays. It wasn't changing the world. I was getting good agents and doing film and TV and I…

— Rainn Wilson

When I saw how much the message of the song resonated with people I began to realize we're all on the same…

— Matthew West

Every time you buy tickets on Ticketmaster, you help to digitize a book.

— Luis von Ahn

Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.

— Audrey Niffenegger

“The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can take away from it.”

— James Bryce

Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.

— Mason Cooley

The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.

— Paracelsus

'Lead with LUV' is the first book I've ever done that's just a pure conversation between my coauthor and me.

— Ken Blanchard

I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

— Brad Feld

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

— Jane Austen

I was a bookworm in school, and in those days it was easy to get books. Bigger cities had book shops.

— Ruskin Bond

Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?

— Henry David Thoreau

“I have read all of James Patterson's Books except for the last 5.I have over 80 of his books.”

— Bridget

I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

— Khaled Hosseini

I don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English.

— Christopher Castellani

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

— George Orwell

Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!"

— Chris Rock

Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.

— Jodi Picoult