Every Book Quotes
126 Every Book quotes by 109 unique authors
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Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I shudder to think of an eternity spend without books. I have hopes that every book that was ever lost is somewhere waiting for me…
— Mel Odom
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I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our…
— Eudora Welty
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Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
— Iris Murdoch
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My father used to say: Every bird is one bird, and every book is one book, and every bird and every book is one thing…
— Clive Barker
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Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way,…
— Cornelia Funke
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In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing--that words can be…
— Markus Zusak
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Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!
— Martin Luther
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Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.
— Ellen Hopkins
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Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.
— Mason Cooley
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Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the…
— Umberto Eco
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The library was home away from home to my mom, and my family. We had spent every Sunday afternoon there since I was a little…
— Kami Garcia
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Same old boring boring story America can’t stop telling itself. What is this sicko fascination? Every book and movie practically has to have a little,…
— Francesca Lia Block
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Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words…
— Paul Auster
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Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.
— Judy Blume
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For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.
— Karl Lagerfeld
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Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard…
— Joseph Brodsky
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Every book is a box of ideas.
— Blue Balliett
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Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not how literature should…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to…
— Sergei Lukyanenko
Who Wrote These Every Book Quotes
109 authors contributed a total of 126 Every Book Quotes, led by these top contributors: