Book Quote by John Piper

Books don’t change the world, people change the world, books only change people.

— Mario Quintana

I've seen firsthand how books can change people's lives. It happened to me.

— George Pelecanos

Books do not simply happen to people. People also happen to books.

— Louise Rosenblatt

I don’t think books can change the world, but when the world begins to change, it searches for different books.

— Shlomo Sand

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

— Christopher Isherwood

Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

— Alan Lightman

In my experience, every book you write changes the conditions in which you write the next.

— Howard Jacobson

The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.

— Anderson Cooper

“No book is really a fixed object. Every reader reads a book differently, and each book works in a different way on each reader.”

— John Connolly

I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space…

— Terry Pratchett

I'm not sure running the press has changed how I write (though perhaps it has in ways I can't see), but it has certainly…

— Danielle Dutton