Ashes Quote by Ellen Hopkins

“A word to the unwise. Torch every book. Char every page. Burn every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real…

— Ellen Hopkins

Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.

— Ray Bradbury

“I will gather up a lifetime of things unsaid, write them down, and then offer them all to be lit up for security and…

— Suzanne Valtsioti

Each book starts from ashes really. I don't feel that I have this to say or that to say or this story to tell…

— Philip Roth

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 won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel…

— Dean Koontz

The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as…

— Anonymous

Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.

— Augustine Birrell

One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if…

— Norman Maclean

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

— David James Duncan

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

— Ray Bradbury