Book Quotes

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately.

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?

You cannot open a book without learning something.

A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three.

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

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

Education at school continues what has been done at home: it crystallizes the optical illusion, consolidates it with book learning, theoretically legitimizes the traditional trash and trains the children to know without understanding and to accept denominations for definitions. Astray in his conceptions, entangled in words, man loses the flair for truth, the taste for nature. What a powerful intellect must you possess, to be suspicious of this moral carbon dioxide and with your head swimming already, to hurl yourself out of it into the fresh air, with which, into the bargain, everyone round is trying to scare you!

I did my book to help other people, ... People are always struggling and they need help and something to give them courage, so that's why I did it.

This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Then I read the book, 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' and that really got me thinking, ... Until then I hadn't really thought a lot about planning for the future.

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