Book Quotes
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Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.
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When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking of little arts and bits of learning. My mother carefully fostered a liking for botany, giving me a small microscope and many books, which I yet have. Strange as it may seem, I now believe that botany and the natural system, by exercising discrimination of kinds, is the best of logical exercises. What I may do in logic is perhaps derived from that early attention to botany.
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Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.
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God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.
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Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon.
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Nothing in this book is true.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.
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I like books that are funny, but that aren't trying to be funny. I like situational humor.
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It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.
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I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.
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I remember I thought I should become a doctor, even though I had no talent for science whatsoever. Then of course, until I was about sixteen, I thought I might have a shot as a major league baseball player. But once I hit my full adolescence I lost all interest in that. I discovered, in rapid succession, books, girls, alcohol and tobacco, and I've never turned back. Those are the four things I'm most interested in.
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When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.
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All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.
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A wonderful book . . . Full of sadness, hope, and ultimately love. I found it very moving.
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My first audition for The Magicians came up in conversation with a close friend who, right then, handed me the first book.
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I love what Max Landis is doing with 'Superman: American Alien.' That's a really good book.
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We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.
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The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics.
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One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.
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Our book technology has Gutenberg at one end and the Ford assembly lines at the other. Both are obsolete. (p. 99)
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Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. Our shoes are a disgrace.
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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
