Quotes on Book

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. And the cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history. Part of the problem before the Internet was that we didn't know which books to read. Someone had to tell you.

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The real war will never get in the books.

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.