Book Quote by David James Duncan

My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

— David James Duncan

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

— Gary D. Schmidt

Talk about burning books and burning bushes, I think that reading an effective novel can be like being immersed in fire and emerging as…

— Suhayl Saadi

“For ordinary books are like meteors. Each of them has only one moment, a moment when it soars screaming like the phoenix, all its…

— Bruno Schulz

Burning books is not as grave as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine.

— Mason Cooley

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of…

— Anne Fadiman

You told us over and over that you don’t think you could live without books, but the ironic thing is, you’d probably die before…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.

— Meg Wolitzer

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

— Alan Bennett

My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my…

— Pat Conroy

Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.

— Augustine Birrell