Book Quotes
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I'm a spiritual person, I believe that if you read the bible, you get what you want from it. But, when you actually read it, you see the beauty, spirituality, the joy and love and what makes us godly. And then if you read between the lines of all the same books, you always see the human influence in the writing... it's not all about religiousness, it's about spirituality.
Carlos Mencia -
Too many people write books as a calling card.
Simon Sinek
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This is a book about getting naked—not physically, but spiritually. It’s about stripping away the symbols and status of public religion—the Sunday-dress version people often call “organized religion.” And it’s about attending to the well-being of the soul clothed only in naked human skin.
Brian D. McLaren -
I read the book and I think, "Well, this is the movie we're going to make," and then someone else reads it, and they take a completely different movie from it. And both are valid.
Casey Affleck -
Finally, this book can — and should — be read as a story of growth from knowledge into wisdom, of intellectual and spiritual education.
Bob Buford -
I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don't write to protect them. It's far too late for that. I write to give them weapons-in the form of words and ideas-that will help them fight their monsters. I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
Sherman Alexie -
I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.
Erik Larson -
I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.
Studs Terkel
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Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book.
Eric Jerome Dickey -
What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?
Ray Bradbury -
It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.
Emily Barton -
As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
Erma Bombeck -
I don't really read children's books or deal with children's books, so I don't have any relationship with them other than my own.
Michael Ian Black -
Americans like fat books and thin women.
Russell Baker
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I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.
Sherman Alexie -
Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.
Erma Bombeck -
I think you keep two sets of books. In one set, you record the truth -- how well you are really doing. This is the secret set -- just for you and loved ones. In the other set are more modest entries and statements, and these are for public consumption!
Helen Gurley Brown -
It's funny because The Book of Mormon is The Book of Mormon now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was a part of it for four years and always believed in it, I never really knew if it was going to be more than a convention for South Park fans.
Josh Gad -
It's so much better to hand over a finished book than having all these people waiting.
Ernest Cline -
I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.
Terry Brooks
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I cannot even picture myself retiring. What would I do? I'll always be doing something, asking somebody questions, even if there weren't a book.
Studs Terkel -
I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945.
Hilary Mantel -
Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.
Casey Affleck -
I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.
Stephen Fry