Quotes on Book

But your book is wrong, Mrs. Strunk, says George, when it tells you that Jim is the substitute I found for a real son, a real kid brother, a real husband, a real wife. Jim wasn't a substitute for anything. And there is no substitute for Jim, if you'll forgive my saying so, anywhere.

Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.

A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.

Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.

You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.

Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.

The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song – if you please! But it seems, before they can launch a song, poets must tramp for days with callused feet, and the sluggish fish of the imagination flounders softly in the slush of the heart. And while, with twittering rhymes, they boil a broth of loves and nightingales, the tongueless street merely writhes for lack of something to shout or say

The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.

...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.