Best One Book Quotations

130 One Book quotes by 114 unique authors

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many! — Martin Luther
If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and… — Amos Oz
So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that, when reading is… — Nick Hornby
She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue,… — Shannon Hale
I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the… — Dorothy Parker
He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he… — Ayn Rand
We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or… — D. H. Lawrence
I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike — Ann M. Martin
I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted. — Mary Ann Shaffer
A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path… — Jane Smiley
I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note,… — Virginia Woolf
Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; He left one… — Ravi Zacharias
I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing, I… — Paulo Coelho
To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how… — Alan Bennett
If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total… — Lewis Buzbee
I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed… — Libba Bray
Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book… — Nadine Gordimer
There were two kinds of students who liked the library: those who devoured one book after another and those who savored the same book repeatedly.… — Rachel Simon
In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the present, all my… — Elie Wiesel
Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your… — Charles Spurgeon
There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands of books in… — Richard Paul Evans
One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. — Malala Yousafzai
Let us pick up our books and our pens,” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one… — Malala Yousafzai
Are we not like two volumes of one book? — Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through door on door;… — David McCord

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