Book Quotes · Page 208

Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did.

— Bill Johnson

“If you did not read the book, you don't know the story.”

— Niedria Dionne Kenny

“The ability to forget is a blessing, just like memory is.”

— Marwane Caber

I have a bad habit of picking up books about drugs, but that's better than having a drug habit, I think.

— Andrew VanWyngarden

“I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.”

— Daniel T. O'Hara

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.

— Johann Heinrich Lambert

We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.

— LeVar Burton

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

— Lord Byron

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…

— Yann Martel

I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my…

— Bridget Carpenter

“No book is really a fixed object. Every reader reads a book differently, and each book works in a different way on…

— John Connolly

A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the…

— Nora Roberts

I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.

— Mo Rocca

The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it,…

— Jonathan Swift

she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an…

— Milan Kundera

“Those who are coming from the gutters know that from time to time a piece of us will break off and float…

— Crystal Evans

The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb…

— William James

I get letters from two kinds of readers. History buffs, who love to read history and biography for fun, and then kids…

— Russell Freedman

Before I start a book, I talk over my characters with a friend who is a counselor. I like to make sure…

— Chevy Stevens

Corporation 2020 is an indispensable contribution to the global transformation of finance and corporations as humanity re-integrates centuries of knowledge and continues…

— Achim Steiner

There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him…

— Mark Twain

“What do you read? I read what friends tell me is good. This explains the book's success, partially. It got very good…

— John Berendt

It's really, really eclectic. It's not a business book [Girlboss], but it's still a book that should make you want to get…

— Sophia Amoruso

I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.

— Ann Patchett

I'm not a very glamorous person. I like to just sit alone in a room and read a book or meditate.

— Yuval Noah Harari

The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins.

— Jonathan Daniels

A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

— Dick Cavett

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different…

— Cornelia Funke

“Books only change the world if the world is capable of digesting them.”

— Luther Blissett

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.

— Erik Larson

“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands." (As quoted on BookRiot , June 18, 2013)”

— Neil Gaiman

“I wanted to read all these books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something to do…

— Bob Dylan

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole other world in books.

— Michael Jackson

I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well.

— Steven Moffat

“Even if the sum total of human knowledge is available online, a book is still a powerful thing.”

— M.H. Van Keuren

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

— Elizabeth Moon

Every new album for me is a blank book of stories to write.

— Laufey

The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

— Edmond Jabes

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote…

— Anonymous