Book Quote by Ray Bradbury

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

— Ray Bradbury

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

— Stephen King

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

— Henry Miller

A book is a book is a book.

— Maurice Sendak

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

— Alan Bennett

Why is it, that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard?

— Malala Yousafzai

A book is a storehouse carried in the pocket

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Books are a better investment in our future than bullets. Books, not bullets, will pave the path towards peace and prosperity.

— Malala Yousafzai

A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you…

— Stephen King

A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

— Frederick Philip Grove

Words are loaded pistols.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a myth. There's…

— Barry Hannah