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

“In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.”

— Raymond Chandler

“my folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and always get…

— Pat Conroy

“If after reading this book you come to my home and brutally murder me, I do not blame you.”

— Jesse Andrews

“It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon...”

— Chaim Potok

“A book can be an escape from the house.”

— Dore Ashton

“Bullets aren't going to better the world, but books can, and will.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“There comes a time in every man’s life when his thoughts lightly turn to setting his library on fire. To burn away the jungle…

— Steven Hardesty

“Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.”

— Erika Johansen

“Think of these books as doors. Open them and let their ideas stir your mind. Study them and they become weapons.”

— Anna K. Lane

“As long as a reader hasn't willingly put down his book, he is a potentially dangerous individual.”

— Anonymous

“Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can take from the world the books…

— Franklin Rosemont