Book Quotes · Page 289

Heaven Is as the Book of God before thee set, Wherein to read His wondrous works.

— John Milton

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.

— Mem Fox

The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.

— Marissa Mayer

I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book.

— Wendy C. Ortiz

Even the bad books I write are satisfying. I'm my least critical reader.

— Cynthia Voigt

“You have to learn to look at the whole of something, not just the parts.”

— Marie Lu

I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.

— Dwight Yoakam

I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious.

— Nikki Giovanni

Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).

— Tom Peters

Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri…

— Swami Vivekananda

People have invoked the ghost of Hemingway quite a few times in writing about the book. I could get into sticky territory…

— Ron Currie Jr

My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure…

— Colleen McCullough

What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings…

— Edmund White

The first black girl book I fell in love with was most likely 'Please, Puppy, Please' by Spike Lee and Tonya Lee.

— Marley Dias

You can know everything that the books have to say, but ultimately it boils down to whether we do the inner work…

— Marianne Williamson

When I was researching my book 'The 33 Strategies of War', I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask…

— Robert Greene

I have kept diaries, of course, but they can't be read for quite a long time. I'm always curious about people who…

— Doris Lessing

What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by…

— Gustave Flaubert

Trees and flowers were often more meaningful to me than people. They always helped me, consoled me, giving the soul a chance…

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

When I was five I learned to read. Books were a miracle to me - white pages, black ink, and new worlds…

— Jennifer Weiner

It's a lot harder for an author that's unpublished to say, 'Hey, here's a new book.' There's nothing of theirs to read,…

— Ryan North

The struggle is how to write optimistically when the world we're living in is not inherently optimistic. I love the idea of…

— A.M. Homes

There are a lot of people out there who will write books, in which everything turns out nicely and the bad guys…

— George R. R. Martin

I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, "I could never have…

— John Irving

If you we're a library book, I would never bring you back.

— Chloe

I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts.

— Woody Allen

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

— Ray Bradbury

Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.

— Paula Poundstone

Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored

— Anonymous

To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul.

— John Smith

The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinity of the book, must be transcended.

— El Lissitzky

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

— Clive Barker

Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.

— Marianne Williamson

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

— Nate Silver

“On a book by Henry James: "Once you put it down, you simply can't pick it up.”

— Mark Twain

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

— Anonymous

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.

— Werner Herzog

“She might be a captive, but in this room, with a book in her hand, she could be free.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

“the book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved”

— Umberto Eco