Quotes on Book

I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.

Whatever we put out, it's coming back to us. The universe keeps a perfect set of books.

Books are the liberated spirits of men.

Read. It makes you more intelligent. It’s that simple. We all see the universe through the tiny keyhole of our own eyes, and every book is another keyhole from which you can gaze.

If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.

All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.

Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.

Books cannot be killed by fire.

I think bridges have a special meaning in our life. I think a book is a bridge. Any type of art is a bridge that allows different cultures to connect. You may not understand your neighbour's way of seeing life, but you sure understand your neighbour's joy in painting or dancing.

My heart right now is totally connected to a book called The Servant of the Bones, which is not in any way connected with vampires or witches. It's about a new hero, a ghost, who really doesn't particularly like the job that he's been given. I'm in love with this hero and in love with his dilemma.

The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily.

I don't judge in my books. I don't have to have the antagonist get shot or the protagonist win. It's just how it comes out. I'm just telling a story.

Knowledge of the Absolute depends upon no book, nor upon anything; it is absolute in itself. No amount of study will give this knowledge; is not theory, it is realization. Cleanse the dust from the mirror, purify your own mind, and in a flash you know that you are Brahman.

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

We need the books that affect us like a disaster

I can't imagine I could have become the person I am now without books. Books became synonymous with freedom. They showed that you could open doors and walk through.