Book Quotes · Page 259

Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.

— Heinrich Heine

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

— William H. Gass

I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore.

— Maurice Sendak

It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.

— Philip Schaff

Books make great gifts because they're something you love that you can share.

— John Lithgow

“To me; reading a book is like watching a movie. Once I start, I can't stop until it's over.”

— Anonymous

You will learn more from your friends than you ever will from books. Choose your friends wisely

— Matthew Kelly

When I finish a book, I'm so exhausted that I'm sort of letting myself think that this could be the end.

— Jo Nesbo

I don't see how it could possibly be made into a movie unless the entire book was scrapped and Shirley Temple cast…

— Margaret Mitchell

A lot of people think I'm really outgoing and confident, but I'm not. I'd much rather sit in a corner and read…

— Eddie the Eagle

My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my…

— Derek Jacobi

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it…

— Stephan Pastis

Every missionary who is proclaiming the name and gospel of Jesus Christ will be blessed by daily feasting from the Book of…

— Henry B. Eyring

“I get absolutely and undeniably attached to book characters to the point where I cry and laugh with them, and physically miss…

— Boodfessions #207

My history is that I will create a character, and they will have a book to themselves, and then I'll integrate the…

— Michael Connelly

The answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to…

— Daniel Keyes

“You've never seen that? Tiny little pieces of pasta in the shape of letters of the alphabet. The letters are mixed together,…

— Brice Matthieussent

Even God had a Welsh name : He spoke to him in the old language; He was to have a peculiar care…

— R. S. Thomas

Books are never harmless...they either strengthen us or they weaken us in our faith. Some of them do this even as they…

— Peter Prange

When I was young, I really identified with Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, particularly the character of Jo. The book was…

— Hillary Clinton

You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about…

— Abraham A. Ribicoff

I have sometimes dreamt ... that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to…

— Virginia Woolf

I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints…I think that, as you…

— Douglas Coupland

I think the fact that I use salty words in my Bonhoeffer book would tip you off that I'm no prude, exactly.

— Eric Metaxas

'Your Erroneous Zones' was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

— Wayne Dyer

That awkward moment when the internet goes down so you have to use your book to find the answers.

— Anonymous

I write books to relieve myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.

— Bret Easton Ellis

My book is already online. I can type 150 words a minute. I took typing in high school.

— Burton Cummings

They write them long because they can't write them short.

— Raymond Chandler

There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The books I like...contain things to ponder, ignore, memorize, and laugh and wonder at.”

— Seymour Chwast

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

— Anonymous

I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

— John Hodgman

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved…

— Jan Karon

We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

— Walter Matthau

I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children.

— Neil Gaiman

If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house.

— Lisa Scottoline

“The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business.”

— Michael Ben Zehabe