Book Quotes
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Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
Sherman Alexie
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As the years go by, I find myself experiencing God's extraordinary concern, consideration, healing, and what I call in my books, the divine therapy.
Thomas Keating
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Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.
George Horace Lorimer
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I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.
Eudora Welty
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We grew up as this family of deniers. And people who knew us for years were stunned when "The Great Santini" came out because we had this appearance of being this happy, large, smiling family. We were taught to smile, put the best face forward. And so when the book ended up - Dad swatting us around the room, no one believed me.
Terry Gross
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If the election had turned out differently, I could be the one overseeing the signing of bailout checks and Vice President Biden could be on the road selling his book 'Going Rogaine.'
Sarah Palin
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I'm not really book-smart.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Bad Meets Evil'
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A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.
Emily Barton
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I read Mitch Daniels's book, 'Keeping the Republic,' several times.
Eric Greitens
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Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.
Ray Bradbury
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You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can you dig a hole? No. Is it a good weapon? No. The fact that it's good for nothing kind of makes it almost all-important.
Etgar Keret
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In a sense, Open City is a kind of Wunderkammer, one of those little rooms assembled with bric-a-brac by Renaissance scholars. I don't mean it as a term of praise: these cabinets of curiousities contained specific sorts of objects - maps, skulls (as memento mori), works of art, stuffed animals, natural history samples, and books - and Open City actually contains many of the same sort of objects. So, I don't think it's as simple as literary inclusiveness.
Teju Cole
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Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
Marcel Proust
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Finally, this book can — and should — be read as a story of growth from knowledge into wisdom, of intellectual and spiritual education.
Bob Buford
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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
Stephen Fry
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Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.
Cecelia Ahern
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She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.
Sarah Addison Allen
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Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.
Tom Hayden
