Quotation Explorer - 'Book'

A book gets rejected because it's not ready to be published. - Gina B. Nahai

Read my book and you shall know thee - Oscar Sanders

Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over. - Junot Díaz

The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper. - Shannon Hale

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book. - Margaret Walker

There's no book that absolutely everyone loves. - Carolyn Parkhurst

This is the funniest book I’ve ever held in my hands. --, Pulitzer Prize winning humorist and author says about Radical Sabbatical - Dave Barry

A must read book; the Holy Bible. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The book is a key to open the human - Yanis Yingnan JI

There's no crying in the rank book. - William Morton

No other work of man in any language even faintly resembles the intricate structure and design of the Bible. The fact remains – only an infinite mind could have devised this Book of books. - Winkie Pratney

Falling in love, making love, having baby, if all sprinkled with the love, you will know how to be a man; how give love and how to receive it. Taham said. You learn the rules of love so you can love people, love yourself and reach the true love without austerity.from "Goddess of Passion", book one - F.J. Namini

You were meant to write this book. - M. Kirin

The more profoundly we study this wonderful book [the Bible], and the more closely we observe its divine precept, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation. - William McKinley

If you can't be an author, be a book - Sivaprakash Sidhu Sivaprakash G Sivaprakash Gopal, sivaprakash sidhu, sivaprakash, sivaprakash, sidh

I have a book of poetry I believe many should read but in each verse you'll discover it wasn't written for greed. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. - Tom Wolfe

The first rule of book club - is that nobody wants to talk about book club. - Douglas Lewis

who gets the rare opportunity of spotting a treasure of memories lying among masses, stepping back to stroke it with a secret smile as your mind wanders back to those sleepless yet ecstatic nights you had spent together?only............a book lover. - Nadun Lokuliyanage

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Medicine is not a book but mind, not a business but life - Farid F. Ibrahim

No Prophet ever said to follow a church, religion or holy book. Do you think that is just a coincidence? - Ed Strachar

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. - Malala Yousafzai

The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book. - Stéphane Mallarmé

If I know the end of a book or a film I want to know why it happen... - Deyth Banger

Reality is what we tell to go screw itself every time we write or read a book, shoot or watch a movie. - Garrett Robinson

A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on. - Richelle E. Goodrich

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard. - William F. Buckley Jr.

Crammed among the stacks of books in his room, the author treated literature as if each book were a window in a city of unstable skyscrapers, and he was the window-washer tasked with the impossible job of cleaning them all. - From "Pageturner" in 365 Tomorrows - Joseph Patrick Pascale

A book is like a vacation for the brain. - Rachel Adams

A book is a treasure of life. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Throw away the rule book and create your own. - Sandra Bellamy

An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. - Gustave Flaubert

There's a lot going on in Marquis' book, as the author smartly builds off a solid premise...A fresh concept and protagonist that breathe life into a conventional but exciting actioner."-- - Kirkus Reviews

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you. - W. Somerset Maugham

It is aptly said FACEBOOK for it being used only as a BOOK by most people for the compilation of own photo to show their true FACE only. - Anuj Somany

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day. - Louisa May Alcott

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read. - Abraham Lincoln

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. - Rebecca West

When there is nothing to say about a book; we end up saying "Beautiful Story". - Crestless Wave

Life is a game and there is full of cheat .. if you don't the cheap book you will play for the rest of your life but you will never get certain score to compete with high scorers. so find the cheap book to succeed in life . - Parker Bernard

Always choose the adventure ... unless, it's chilly outside and there's a cup of warm coffee resting near a book and comfy sofa. - Barbara Brooke

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. - Edward Gibbon

I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it. - Lord Brabazon

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

Where would the world be if we took every man to book? There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best- in a way that cost them nothing. - Remarque Erich Maria

I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book. - A.S.W. Rosenbach

Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they've written with purpose going unread. - Mark W. Boyer

The best moments in reading are when you come across your own suppressed emptiness. You stand face to face with a character in your book, a person you never met, someone even who is long dead…And you finally realize that the book is not what you’ve been reading. - Hillary Wen

We all move on from history to chance, sorrow to sorrow, hope to hope, joy to joy. Read the book of fiction on the theme. its title is FROM HISTORY TO CHANCE - Jamaluddin Jamali

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief—call it what you will—than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course. - A.A. Milne

Don't be so impatient in finding love; take your time & allow the Lord to write that special love story for you. Otherwise you'll be busy reading the back of the book. - Surgeo Bell

He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. - Dr. Isaac Barrow

No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself. - Elinor Florence

I have read your book and much like it. - Moses Hadas

It is more important to understand the book you are reading than to finish the book you are reading. - Clifford Cohen

Life is Like a Book, You cant Just read the Back, you Have to Dive in and Experience The Story within - Look Im A Cat

Read everyday quotes start from easy which don't want a lot of thinking, then average,then something complex. This will re-wire your brain, however if you find a book of quotes I suggest you to read all quotes slow and even if you don't get a quote or quotes read them as much time as possible. - Deyth Banger

A girl is not a predictable book but is a closed diary - ashadnan

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book, and a tired man who wants a book to read. - G.K. Chesterton

You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read until the cover fell off, the book you read hidden from your mother. What an honor to hold hands with a child's imagination in this way. - Meg Medina

You are the best book you could ever write phi - rassool jibraeel snyman

Never fails. Every new book I write seems impossible, writes like I'm typing from dictation, edits like I didn't write it, and finishes like I couldn't possibly have written it. - Kris Rafferty

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works... - J. R. R. Tolkien

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world! - Neil Gaiman

It doesn't matter if you win or lose in the big, scary jungle of the real world. Winners and losers... Enemies and allies... We don't live in a comic book! This is the real deal.

In fact, when I finally shuffle off this mortalcoil, you will have to pry a book out of my cold, dead hands. - Michael Cart

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Before You Begin Writing Your Book, Ask Yourself A Very Important Question: What Kind of Results Do I Plan To Receive From Writing This Book? If You Say Money, Then Don't Bother Even Writing The Book. - Chris Mentillo

If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: ‘What’s great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!’ It will be about how the whole thing stands up. - George R.R. Martin

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes. - Agatha Christie

I'm considering writing a self-help book and giving people 20 cents to read it. This way, I can be sure they all get new paradigms. - Ryan Lilly

Reading a good book keeps me awake all night. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Dream up a book on Monday, publish it on Friday. - Jill Novak

Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill A Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! - Homer Simpson - Matt Groening

When each one of us become an active and living book of lessons for those who see our examples, the boundaries of religious interpretation will give way to the new era of brotherhood and peace we're waiting for. - Chico Xavier

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay. - Christopher Hitchens

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book. - Malcolm X

Burn the book. It serves you once.Read the book. Serves you for a lifetime.Lend the book. It serves for generations to come. - Kowtham Kumar K

If you are interested in stories with happy endings you would be better off reading some other book.

For the length of time it takes to write a book, you need to believe that you’re the only writer in existence; the only one who matters. You need to shut yourself away and allow the creativity to build up, not leak out through worry and comparisons and doubt. - Martin Cosgrove

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book. - E.A. Bucchianeri

Writing a book with completely fictitious characters is like running a democracy, centered around a capital state. You constantly live with the fear & suspicion that one of the characters will start an uncontrollable rebellion. - Shomprakash Sinha Roy

Never go anywhere without a book in your hands. - JBeartheBW

My Ancestor Series of adventure-thrillers run like a raging river. I'm now in the editing process with my next thriller, "The Apothecary." Please go to my website for excerpts, synopses, and book trailers of all my works: . Marshall Chamberlain - http://www.gracepublisihing.org

...I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get rid of that book.... - Vladimir Nabokov

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead. - Dame Rose Macaulay

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes. - Jorge Luis Borges

All that you seek is hidden in book. - Lailah Gifty Akita

There are few things better than losing yourself in a book. And if you're lucky enough to have that adventure continue in a series, it's like chocolate ganache on the icing on the cake. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. - John Witherspoon

...ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the writer. That's finesse. - Shandy L. Kurth

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. - Christopher Morley

That mine adversary had written a book. - Bible

She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you open the books on her shelves, you will find that the front and back covers encase white pages. - Kamand Kojouri

Looking for a good book to read and a great teacher to listen to? Here is a good book and here is a great teacher: Other cultures! To read this book and to listen to this teacher, all you need is to travel! - Mehmet Murat ildan

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. - Madeleine L'Engle

Yahya related to me from Malik that he heard that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "I have left two things with you. As long as you hold fast to them, you will not go astray. They are the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Prophet. - according to the Muwatta by Malik ibn Anas

While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, ."He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, . - George Bernard Shaw

If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book! - Kerry Greenwood

A good book has no ending. - R. D. Cumming

Life is a book. We fill the pages. - Victoria Valentine

It is not the balance in your check book that makes life count. It is the investment one makes in the lives of others. - John Paul Warren

Some children were lucky enough to have their Potter novels banned by witch-hunting school boards and micromanaging ministers. Is there any greater job than a book you're not allowed to read, a book you could go to hell for reading? - Ann Patchett

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity. - Thomas Carlyle

Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need - Judy Blume

Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell. - Tahereh Mafi

Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself. - Louis L'Amour

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man’s frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search. - Max Lerner

Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing. - Cicero

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle... - Vladimir Nabokov

The Bible may be an arresting andpoetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should giveyour children to form their morals. - Richard Dawkins

I believe almost every author have gone through the terribly uncomfortable period between the time of shedding the seeds of a story and waiting to see it flourish as a published book, spending hours watering and fertilizing it. This is a dreadful period, frustrating and depressing. - Ama H. Vanniarachchy

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. - Helen Keller

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return. - Salman Rushdie

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. - C.S. Lewis

This was the book I read over and over. I really felt so in tune with them- I knew all the dates of their lives, what they had been doing, whre they had been. They were always my heroes, creating something fantastic against all odds, and against their real life. - Christian Tetzlaff

A book is a sacred gift. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity. - Barack Obama

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author. - Evelyn Waugh

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room. - Steven Wright

Woe be to him that reads but one book. - George Herbert

A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly. - Madeleine L'Engle

Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I ­always have to feel that I'm bunking off from something. - Geoff Dyer

Read a good book every day. Books help to educate the soul. The mere joy of learning something new will instill the will to live in you. - Sanchita Pandey

Oh for a book and a shady nook,Either indoors or out,with the green leaves whispering overhead,or the street cries all about.Where I may read at all my easeboth of the new and old,For a jolly good book whereon to lookis better to me than gold - John Wilson

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading. - Susan Sontag

Give a man a beer, the remote and a La-Z-Boy and he’s a happy camper! All Things Caveman humor cartoon book will help you understand that hairy guy beside you. - Laurie Foxx

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things. - George Gissing

A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike. - Thomas à Kempis

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book. - J.K. Rowling

When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book? - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The journey is the mystery…the destination the answer. If you don’t have a happy ending yet, you have not finished reading the right book. - Shannon L. Alder

To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story. - Sarah Addison Allen

[W]hat I like best is staying home and reading. Being rich is not about how many homes you own. It’s the freedom to pick up any book you want without looking at the price and wondering whether you can afford it. - John Waters

A book is a suicide postponed. - Emil Cioran

Chris book focuses on the author’s strong belief- America is only one generation away from new heights of greatness. - Chris Salamone

You need two things to write a great book: imagination and inclination. Without one, your book will be boring; without the other, your book won't get finished at all. - Ellie Firestone

KORAN, n. A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked imposture, contradictory to the Holy Scriptures. - Ambrose Bierce

Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part. - Pliny the Younger

Not even a book on prosperity can prosper you, when what is expected of you is given, your time won't be wasted. - Michael Bassey Johnson

In a weak moment, I have written a book. - Margaret Mitchell

′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read. - Mark Twain

Sometimes I forget myself in a book. And when i have to stop reading it takes me a minute to remember where I am. Or who I am. - Anonymous

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

If a religious book makes you harbor ill thoughts about those with differing faith, then, you're reading the wrong crap of late. - Fakeer Ishavardas

The Soul's sacred ground of being is the foundation for your doing. -- from the book, Doing a 360, page 135 - Nancy Ash

In books I meet the dead as if they were alive,in books I see what is yet to come...All things decay and pass with time...all fame would fall victim to oblivionif God had not given mortal men the book to aid them. - Richard de Bury

I wonder whether, perhaps without realizing it, we seek out the books we need to read. Or whether books themselves, which are intelligent entities, detect their readers and catch their eye. In the end, every book is the I Ching. You pick it up, open it, and there it is, there you are. - Andrés Neuman

Wear the old coat and buy the new book. - Austin Phelps

The broken spine of the book shows the webbing of binder's string, and my fingers have worn white spots in the cover. - Susan Straight

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. - Maya Angelou

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

The best gift, you can give me is a book. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The good thing about a self-help book is that if you misunderstand something then it won't mock you. - Stephen Richards

Deep rooted envy is the main cause why people put you down, blame, shame, misjudge, maltreat and malign you; abusing your goodness and generosity." from the book, Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul - Angelica Hopes

What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end up with a book of which I'm very proud. - Louis Sachar

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. - Franz Kafka

Horror. I can't manage it. I become--well--horrified. Self-help books have a similar effect. When asked, "Any literary genre you simply can't be bothered with?" - (By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from the NYT Book Review, by Pamela Paul) - Emma Thompson

If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks. - A.M. Homes

When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Any change that shortens the path between a writer and reader is a win for the book world. - K.J. Kilton

When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life. - Matthew Donnelly

That is what a book does. It introduces us to people and places we wouldn't ordinarily know. A good book is a magic gateway into a wider world of wonder, beauty, delight, and adventure. Books are experiences that make us grow, that add something to our inner stature. - Gladys M. Hunt

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. - Angela Carter

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

When asked for the details of an ideal date, I answered, "I want him to take me to a book store, so he can see just how happy I can be. - Camille Cabujat

When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time— not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I'm actually walking around in a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism. - Colin Firth

No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book. - Muriel Rukeyser

Ever since we’d found Wilson, his cousin’s calmness bothered me. I realized now I felt less unease with angry outbursts from grieving relatives, than I had with the slow, ticking time bomb of the quiet and collected.--Prepped for Kill, Marjorie Gardens Mystery Book 2 - A.E.H. Veenman

But for this book we could not know right from wrong. - Abraham Lincoln

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page. - Saint Augustine

There is no Frigate like a book. - Emily Dickinson

A book is the cheapest ticket you will ever hold. - Stefanos Livos

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book. - Mary Higgins Clark

REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it, Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it) At work upon a book, and so read out of it The qualities that you have first read into it. - Ambrose Bierce

Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book. - Patti Smith

The sole/soul purpose of a book is to be read. - Dani J. Caile

You're so easy to read but the book is boring me. - Emilie Autumn

I am fanatic book lover. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The acquisition of culture requires repose, sitting quietly in a room with a book, or alone with one's thoughts even any crowded concert or art museum. - Joseph Epstein

Each book holds an experience and an adventure."[Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971] - Neil Armstrong

There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it - Kathy Acker

I would rather never make a penny on book sales and know that many had derived some fair pleasure from my writing, than to know that very few had ever taken a chance on my work. I certainly won't last forever, but I'd love to think that my imagination will continue to surface in the minds of others. - Eric Diehl

The process of self-invention is never-ending; writer, like children, are always growing into their gifts. ( in a "Times-Picayune" book review. - Susan Larson

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. - Shannon L. Alder

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book... - Dwight D. Eisenhower

A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own. - Douglas William Jerrold

And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive. - George Orwell

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs. - Anne Fadiman

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. - Truman Capote

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. - Mark Twain

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. - Heinrich Heine

This is the right timeThey are the right peopleWill it be enough for mankind?From "The Rishis: Book of Secrets. - Robert Delgado

It may be escapist, but if I have a choice between watching the news or reading a book which gets me to see the world through different eyes, I will always choose the latter! - Christina Westover

Everything is going well "Day One" book up to page 137, planning som new movies to watch in the near future, close to awesome and powerful quotes. Some new and awesome events... - And that's life, that's how it must be! - Deyth Banger

I can forgo my lunch to get the book, I love to read. - Lailah Gifty Akita

when they asked me : why you still you use this old photo?my answer : photo? it's not a simple photo, it's a cover of a book that i can remember his story, page by page. - Nabil TOUSSI

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. - G.K. Chesterton

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. - Virginia Woolf

A $3 Cup of Coffee is Worth a Book. - Daniel Marques

REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing. - Ambrose Bierce

Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to the real. - Michael Bassey Johnson

If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you. - Terry Pratchett

If you jotted down all of my ill-thought out comments, you could write a book entitled, Guide to Getting Punched in the Throat for Boneheads-Mad Hatter in "Death of the Mad Hatter" (Coming Soon!) - Sarah J. Pepper

Each time you read a book, a tree smiles knowing there's life after death. - tumblr

To conquer fear, you must become fear - you must bask in the fear of the BOOK... and men fear most what they cannot see- The Power of the Book is spiritual. - Compton Gage

A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far-away places without ever leaving your chair. - Katrina Mayer

A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Tis the good reader that makes the good book. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, "Every book is judged by its cover until it is read. - Maryrose Wood

There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book. - Will Rogers

I wanted to do something new. The world is becoming a global village and we have to understand these different cultures. There is a Danish culture, an Israeli culture and so on. So if you want to go to Denmark, then read the book. - Enock Maregesi

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. - Groucho Marx

There's nothing on Earth like really nailing the last line of a big book. You have 200 pages to tickle their fancy, and seven words to break their heart. - Alex de Campi

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. - Ernest Hemingway

Writing a book is like raising a child. They are conceived in private, and with hard labor, delivered in due time and given a name. Our own DNA is written all over them, and we pray their life will be a blessing to others. - Danny L. Deaubé

You have to want the book enough to read it. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Withdraw, like a turtle, into a hard yet harmless shell, ornamented with beautiful memories of the past.from the book 'I Know Who You Are! - Fatima Masood

The show must go on, and so must The Book. - E.A. Bucchianeri

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. - Alice Walker

Hurry up, because I'm not sure how much more of your sarcasm I can take before I write a book about it. - Taylor Magnuson

The prophet is always at the mercy of events; nevertheless, I venture to conclude this book with the forecast that at least half the illnesses of mankindwill disappear once our food supplies are raised from fertile soil and consumed in a fresh condition. - Albert Howard

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. - Toni Morrison

when you know that writing your own book of life is so difficult to begin with, the least you can do for someone else, is to try to read the pages of a person rather than skip through the chapters. - lauren klarfeld

Is this a kissing book? - William Goldman

You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing. - Roger Kahn

What I discovered this freak me out. That the people will check out a book with naked woman, but won't check out a book without this WHY??What are the differences? - Deyth Banger

Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

Most people don't know how to find the answers, so here how I do it. I just read a book or a film about the topic and I found a lot - Deyth Banger

An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero! - Mehmet Murat ildan

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Lhe love of a book is what's in your heart - Carmela Dutra

i like the book my bloody life because it tell what gange related do and what makeks them feel bad - Sanchez Raymundo

Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters... - William Shakespeare

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. - Carl Sandburg

Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person. - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book. - Saul Bellow

Life is a recipe book our words always cook enough. - Kishore Bansal

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage. - Roald Dahl

A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul. - Jason Ellis

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it." -- (born June 11 1925) - William Styron

Write the book you want to read - Austin Kleon

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. - Charles Baudelaire

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved? - Carl Sagan

The Bible is the one book we’ve most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way. - Geoffrey Wood

When you find that one book, that one that makes you tingle. It's almost like you found a little piece of magic. - Carmela Dutra

Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality. - Walter Kaufmann

The world of book is the stream of souls. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes life ask you a question, but you couldn't find answer in any book. You have to create answer yourself. - Salman Mansuri

You life is a book; make it a bestseller. - Shanon Grey

...a book, a real book, language incarnate, becomes a part of one's bodily life. - Wendell Berry

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone. - John Green

Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore. - Thea Dorn

A candle, a book and a peaceful person mean three candles for the world! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99. - Ryan Lilly

One cannot review a bad book without showing off. - W. H. Auden

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. - G. K. Chesterton

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

All these uses a valid; all these reading of the book are "correct". For all these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world of Ender's Game, not with my eyes only, but also with their own. - Orson Scott Card

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers. - Charles Kingsley

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better. - Paulo Coelho

Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one. - Robert Byrne

It began to falter not when the book publishers who loved books gave way to those who preferred profits to reading. It happened when publishers and editors cut back on their drinking. If there is one national flower in book publishing, it is the martini. - Al Silverman

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. - Herman Melville

Crammed among the stacks of books in his room, the author treated literature as if each book were a window in a city of unstable skyscrapers, and he was the window-washer tasked with the impossible job of cleaning them all. - from Pageturner in 365 Tomorrows - Joseph Patrick Pascale

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - too sad story. This book is very good and sad - John Boyne, El niño con el pijama de rayas

Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun. - Groucho Marx

It only takes one minute to find a really good book, but it can give you a lifetime of memories when you read a really good book that leaves you with lasting impression. - Nahisha McCoy

Wisdom is not always discovered in a book, true wisdom is discovered in the knowing that you know nothing. - Pasha Cook

Your life is a book; make it a bestseller. - Shanon Grey

When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back. - Edgar Watson Howe

It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book. - Sara Sheridan

How can I survive without a book to read? - David Hill

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me? - Alain de Botton

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book. - J.K. Rowling

The cleanest book on a dusty bookshelf is usually a dirty one. - Ashwin Sanghi

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child. - Dr. Seuss

My evolution as a writer? Mother said "stop talking like that", teachers said "you're weird", readers say "best book ever - Daniel Marques

The way a book is read- which is to say,the qualities a reader brings to a book- can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it. - Norman Cousins

A book is never, ever finished. You simply get to a point where you and your editor are reasonably happy with how it is and you go with that. Left to our own devices, a writer would endlessly fiddle with a book, changing little thing after little thing. - Kimberly Pauley

The covers of this book are too far apart. - Ambrose Bierce

God really must have had a sense of humor, because if I had to name my biggest turn-on, it was literature. And he had just recommended a book that I didn’t know, that wasn’t taught in school. If I were single, there would be no better pick-up line. - Kody Keplinger

A book may be regarded as irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The future will never bend to the fleeting hopes of the man."From "Lucifer's Ladder: God of the Fallen, Book One - W.D. Frank

Your old grade book is a waste of space and time. Don't hesitate; just throw it Out. - Starr Sackstein

Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart. - Muna Adnan Naqi

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity. - Henri Cartier-Bresson

‎"Life's book is hard to understand: Why couldst thou not remain atschool? - Charles Hanson Towne

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. - Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others… - Chris Geiger

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book. - Abraham Lincoln

Chapters - Life has many different chapters for us. One bad chapter doesn’t mean the end of the book. - Edenia Archuleta

The best friend you can have, is one who is there always for you.If lucky you have one or two human onces but even more the one between covers a book, which will never hurt,insult or betray you and always there for you to be. - Miroslava Rozman Novakovic

Taking the reading and book one of the two hours of my time, but he advised me years! - Ahmed A. Ateya

Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death. - Lynn Johnston

As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book. - Iain Banks

When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they’re standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures. - Meg Rosoff

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author. - Elbert Hubbard

I don’t want to write a book which will bring me fame for just an hour. I will try to write something which may not be very popular but it may last forever. - Debasish Mridha

The waters of spirituality are forever changing and forever constant. Prejudice or fixed ideas can only weigh you down and remove you from the flow. - The Book of Metanoia (D. Williamsen) - Dannye Williamsen

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. - Chinese Proverb

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible) - Abraham Lincoln

If you want to treat your book as a child, the finished book should be an adult, capable to stand on its own legs and able to weather the thunder. Not a baby that still needs to be defended. - Martyn V. Halm

Some people say, ‘Do not judge the book by its cover!’ Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say anything they want to say, but for me, cover does matter. - Toba Beta

One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best. - Clifton Fadiman

I told her that I loved her again and she said, Me too..#HeartbreakerEgg on Bex – Book 2 Having it - Jamie Scallion

The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages. - David Foster Wallace

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle. - Sir Thomas Malory

If any young man reads this Book aright, he becomes large-hearted. He cannot hold his soul within the narrow bound of his ribs, but his great heart looks out to see where it can scatter benefits. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could have only one book, what would it be? I always say, "How to Build a Boat. - Stephen Wright

Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization. - Swami Vivekananda

The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading. - Edith Wharton

Reincarnation do you know this word??No?Check out the book "Don't touch this book" by Jan Van Helsing and you will find the answer! - Deyth Banger

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. - Jane Austen

Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern. - Germany Kent

When a new book is published, read an old one. - Samuel Rogers

Every day we live, we are writing our own secret book. - Chrys Fey

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it. - G.K. Chesterton

The Bible is just a book. But, you choose whether to prove it's all true or nothing. - Shim Steward

Give me a life time by the fire, with a book in my hand, nothing more and I will tell you a great story. - Evelyn L. Colon

I hate metaphors. That’s why my favorite book is Moby Dick. No frou-frou symbolism. Just a good, simple tale about a man who hates an animal. - Ron Swanson

Finding the book was like kissing a lightning bolt. - Karen Miller

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one! - C. JoyBell C.

Our senses and emotions are the great source of inspiration for creating compelling and interesting art pieces (books included). Each art piece, be it a book, a song, a painting, a photograph or a product should touch our senses and evoke emotions. Emotionless art lacks purpose and interest. - Serafima

Everyone wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late. Jonathan Tropper, from The Book of Joe - Madelon Phillips

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. - Henry David Thoreau

The Bible is the greatest book ever written. It is absolutely amazing the tremendous amount of joy, peace, and success one will experience simply by applying its admonition. If you truly want the Good Life follow the Good Book. - DeWayne Owens

Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend. - Dave Kellett

I believehaving a great diversity of teachers is harmful and confusing for a young mind, in the same way I believe that it is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially - Donna Tartt

If a book falls in the woods and nobody read it, was it ever written? - Neil Leckman

A great book increases my heartbeat as if I’m prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in its depths. - Carmen DeSousa

It takes a great reader to make a great book. - Orna Ross

The point is, every book we had could save us in a different way -- only, we had to open it. We had to drop our eyes to the page and drink in the words that were there. - Nova Ren Suma

Theologians and other clerks, You won't understand this book, -- However bright your wits -- If you do not meet it humbly, And in this way, Love and Faith Make you surmount Reason, for They are the protectors of Reason's house. - Marguerite Porete

Dreams are like holding on to a good book in your hands; you have the full story in your palms, but no matter how much you want to get to the end of the story, you have to go through all the pages first; and you are the writer. - T.H Maloa

I love the paradise of being between the pages of a book. - Lailah Gifty Akita

You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else. - Erica Bauermeister

A book may be compared to your neighbor; if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Fear is the short road to death and this world, Changed by the flux of decay: Survival is the exception for weary men.From the new book The Waning - Ellen Mae Franklin

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. - Daniel J. Boorstin

Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction can’t provide that, we may be excused from inquiring into its higher qualities. - C.S. Lewis

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. - Robertson Davies

Hong Kong became so materialistic that it must be one of the rarest places in the world where family members need to make an appointment to have dinner together, and people speculate upon their own home where their own children are growing up.’Quote from my 7th book about Hong Kong! - TIM I GURUNG

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over themselves. - Lemony Snicket

Live to learn and you'll learn to live.from the book 'I Know Who You Are! - Fatima Masood

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. - Harold S. Kushner

Every book is unique and it depends what you think, not others. - Emmiem

Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

If a bloke gave you a hundred quid for a book you can bet your life it’s his way, but if all the poor and suffering people raise their hats to you for writing it - that’s different; it makes it worthwhile then. - Alan Marshall

A favorite song or tune may stay on your mind for hours. A good book will stay on your mind until you find another. - F. Haywood Glenn

I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. - Groucho Marx

An inspirational writer's life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully. - Shannon L. Alder

Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book. - David McCullough

Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together. - John Green

We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award - Kate DiCamillo

No book can be written till it wants to be written, till it shouts to be written, and raises up a persistent din in the writer's head. And then, if you want peace, you just have to pull it out and freeze it in print. Nothing less would do. - Jyoti Arora

Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop. - Ralph Novak

Life is a book. There are many pages to be written. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life. - Charles Bukowski

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy. - Edward P. Morgan

A first kiss in the book stacks. Now that was romantic. - D'Aprix Sweeney, Cynthia

You’re writing someone’s ‘future’ favorite book. - M. Kirin

The frontispiece of Mr. 's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits. George Poulett Scrope - Lyell

A simple look can not and will not uncover even a simple book. - ferrrer joey palomar fesico

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

Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different. - John Steinbeck

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. - Franz Kafka

The best book I've ever written wasn't the first...It was the book of life. - Khali Raymond

Only a true reader will understand how lovely it is to read a book on rainy days. - Nicholaa Spencer

Who needs sleep when you have a good book? - Elizabeth Ann Patterson

A book is a dream you hold in your hands - Neil Gaiman

I have finally figured out the meaning of life: there's no such thing. And that's a beautiful thing, because that means that WE get to choose it ourselves. Life has no meaning besides the meaning you give it. You are indeed the author of your destiny. So why not write a book worth reading? - Dean Bokhari

The first paragraph of my book must get me my reader. The last paragraph of a chapter must compel my reader to turn the page. The last paragraph of my book must ensure that my reader looks out for my next book. - Ashwin Sanghi

Always carry a book on a date so that when you get bored you can slip into the Ladies for a read. - Sharon Stone

I'm not a Christian, but I have read his book. - Bill Maher

I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are. - Neil Gaiman

Only a book is enough to change the course of your life. - Aman Jassal

No two persons ever read the same book. - Edmund Wilson

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way. - Caroline Gordon

Books are the reality you get to choose; life is the reality you hide from inside a book. - A.M. Hudson

Dare to DreamYes, if you can dare to dream.Surely you can catch the sunlight's beam.While all else seems to fail.Truth shall forever prevail.(Copyright excerpts from the poem and published poetry book 'From the Silence Within - Madhavi Sood

Everything comes to him who waits but a loaned book. - Kin Hubbard

Rod Cockshutt, Professor Emeritus at N.C. State University called my book, Evidence of Insanity, "an extraordinary achievement" and told me to not change the last 10-15 pages no matter what. - carol piner

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. - Anne Rice

...the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon. - Noam Chomsky

A good book is enjoyable. A great book sets off a bomb inside of you. - Ned Hepburn

There is no one so grateful as the man to whom you have given just the book his soul needed and he never knew it. - Roger Mifflin - Christopher Morley

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? - Jerry Seinfeld

A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo. - Kurt Vonnegut

Gary Sherman has written a truly insightful and helpful book that will positively change the lives of its readers. Although many books have wise teachings, few have accessible, reliable and transformative practices like this one. I highly recommend this book. - Russell Delman

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone,and the meaning has to go find an author again.- The Trouble With Reading - William Stafford

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. - Augustine of Hippo

Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored. - Oliver Markus

I'm not trying to please anyone. I'm just trying to write a damn book. - Richard P. Denney

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. - Jane Austen

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page. - Brandon Mull

Life is too short to spend on a book you don't enjoy. - Katrina-Jane

If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. - Nora Ephron

By studying, understanding and do the wills of the book, you renounce your mortal life. - Compton Gage

This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book ... and how to be the best you can be. - Faye Snyder

There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book. - Frank Serafini

A book can not control you when you are the writter. - Abidul Huda Chowdhury Suzon

Now everything that you do is written in red or black in Angel Gabriel's book. Not for everyone is this record kept, but only for those who have taken a position of responsibility. There is a Law of Sins, and if you do not fulfil all your obligations, you will pay. - G.I. Gurdjieff

I was always taught that book-keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet. - Ashwin Sanghi

I shouldn’t need to remind you that it was words that created the universe and The Word that now holds it together. While your man was simply reading one little book, something not unlike Genesis was stirring in his skull, and you didn’t think to stop it? - Geoffrey Wood

And then this happened. And then this other thing happened. Oh, and I almost forgot to tell you about the time this happened. I should've had this book over for a cup of coffee and a chat. - Nick Stewart

knowledge without application is like a book that is never read' , Hemel Hempstead. - Christopher Crawford

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener. - Paula Fox

Thank you Bjork Peterson for a wonderful review of my new book "Why We Love Serial Killers" @readingghost - Scott A. Bonn

It took me a beat down to execute you Angel but the pleasure will be all mines! - Warden Pinnacle From the book Framed: The Second Book Of The Thousand Years War. - Angel Ramon Medina

I build my world with the pages of a book. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book! - Orson Welles

I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book. - Kenneth Rexroth

I didn't read the book. I burned it after the first sentence. - Rodindeadpan

Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts. - Richelle E. Goodrich

من قال عليّ ما لم أقل فليتبوأ مقعده من النارWhoever ascribes to me what I have not said then let him occupy his seat in Hell-fire! (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 3, #109) - Anonymous

People come to me for the solution of their problem, if my knowledge and experience is not enough to solve the problem, I go to my library read the relevant book and provide the solution. - Amit Kalantri

The Book of Life was created as a tool for humans to use to grow in wisdom, knowledge, and power. - Stacy Snapp-Killian aka StacyK

A beautiful face like yours should be smiling. Why don't you smile?""I do smile. When something beautiful happens in a book, I can't help but smile. - Kiara Maharaj

The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book. - A.D. Posey

CRUEL HARVEST by is a compelling, riveting, unforgetable memoir that will keep you turning the pages. Published by Thomas Nelson and due for release August 2012. Kidnapped from an orphanage Frances is dragged across the country working in the fields. Youtubefrangrubb to see video book trailer. - Fran Elizabeth Grubb

Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. - Don Marquis

The Waves is an extraordinary achievement ... It is trembling on the edge. A little less - and it would lose its poetry. A little more - and it would be over into the abyss, and be dull and arty. It is her greatest book. - E.M. Forster

Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Live in the moment. Don’t carry baggage from the past. Put that baggage in a history book and learn from it, but don’t carry it on your shoulder. You will feel lighter and be able to enjoy the present and the future. - Debasish Mridha

The secret to writing a book is starting on page one and not stopping until you write the words "The End". - Bryan Koepke

To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one. - Selwyn Champion

The Gospel is not a sermon title or the name of a book in the Bible. The Gospel is the person of Jesus Christ and it is the power of God to bring people to salvation. Romans 1:16 - John Paul Warren

A basket of ripe fruit is holier than any prayer book. - Marty Rubin

I am pushing you, even if it’s off a cliff, to create. Write that book, that song; pore over the concept of redecorating your life. I meet people all the time who say they’re not creative. Bullshit, motherfuckers, you are creative. - Nikki Sixx

Self-publishing a shitty book doesn't make you an author any more than singing in the shower makes you a rockstar or squeezing your pimple makes you a dermatologist. - Oliver Markus

Doctor Sleep - book (By Stephen King) is the best choice before going to bed! - Deyth Banger

I feel an author and an illustrator weave the magic of a children's picture book together. - Sima Mittal

If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit - Stephen King

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. - Bertrand Russell

Criticism is like dissecting a dead frog," Caleb said when the book was published. "They're examining all the guts and shit and organs, when the thing that really matters, whatever it was that animated the body, has long since left. It does nothing for the art. - Kevin Wilson

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us. - Alain de Botton

The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind. - Michael Bassey Johnson

As a children’s minister, I always believed that I was an evangelist, and at the end of the book, there’s a simple prayer that, whoever’s reading the book could accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior - Soraya Diase Coffelt

When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, "Is this necessary at this point in the book? - Pat Conroy

No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lyingas in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men. - Thomas Carlyle

Any silly ism or stupid book that considers men above women, must be shunned like a lowlife demon. For, all's one, barring none. - Fakeer Ishavardas

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. Also, when I write letters, I spend the next two days thinking about what I figured out in my letters. - Stephen Chbosky

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it. - Karl Lagerfeld

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. - Ezra Pound

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story. - Jeffrey Archer

If you can read the book and say, ‘Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!’ That’s Military Science Fiction. (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012) - Brandon Sanderson

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010) - Patti Smith

It’s easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What’s difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Everybody is too busy with their own lives to give a damn about your book, painting, screenplay etc, especially if you haven't sold it yet. And the ones that aren't, you don't want in your life anyway. - Hugh Macleod

It is rather whenWe gloriously forget ourselves, and plungeSoul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound,Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth--'Tis then we get the right good from a book. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You cannot open a book without learning something. - Confucius

-by reading book after book (the only reliable otherworlds I've discovered so far). - Kate Atkinson

I’m waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh’s pharmacist writes a book. - Carl Hiaasen

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better. - Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. - Oscar Wilde

A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they experience as desirable or even intimately necessary. - Janna Malamud Smith

Few people will understand that to love is like being able to select and read a good book. They don’t just stop at the title or the cover. They stop because...they wanted to read the content. The wanted to read each word, each sentence, each line, but most of all, what was in between the lines... - lauren klarfeld

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement. - Holbrook Jackson

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx

Experience life, pick up a good book and appreciate the moment, for the moment, not the replay. - Serina Hartwell

Every book you've ever read on LEADERSHIP will finally make sense (and become practical) if you change the word "leader" to INFLUENCER. - Richie Norton

It's just incrediable if I play a game, I think don't I?If I watch a film, I just finish a book... - Deyth Banger

The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first. - Blaise Pascal

Loosers want it but only through the easy way. If action taking were like reading a story book, loosers would only love to open the picture pages - Israelmore Ayivor

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Bible is the best motivational book. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion. - Ellen Kushner

I never said you had to like it. You have to accept it. No regret." - Clare Harding From the current book in writing BUMPKIN by . - Lani Brown

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. - Groucho Marx

A classic is a book that has never finished what it wants to say. - Italo Calvino

A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget. - Lauren Hammond

Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had the time, and since you hadn't you are glad that someone else had, although obviously it might have been done better. - Stephen Potter

Every book is its own black hole. Don’t fight the pull; find out where it takes you. - Richelle E. Goodrich

It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write book. - Lailah Gifty Akita

In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it’s printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading experience for you. - John Green

Crystal then read the red sticker out loud, "Dangerous, do not open." We both stared at each other for a moment. I was trying to figure out why a dumb book about power was dangerous - Dominic Tomasi

Your life is a book;it begins the day you are born,the chapters pile up as you grow,and the book ends as you die. - Matshona Dhliwayo

I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children . . . do not discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do not like is the gateway drug to other books you may prefer. - Neil Gaiman

First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will have handed itself to me on that first draft. - Terry Pratchett

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. - Brendan Francis

I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega. - Ruth Hurmence Green

Reading a book is something you do to yourself. - Last Man Standing

Now you see, Dr. Stadler, you're speaking as if this book were addressing to a thinking audience. If it were, one would have to be concerned with such matters as accuracy, validity, logic and the prestige of science. But it isn't. It's addressed to the public. - Ayn Rand

Do not forget to write your sacred book. - Lailah Gifty Akita

A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond. - John Milton

Turning a manuscript into a book is easy; getting the manuscript ready to become a book is hard. - A.P. Fuchs

The fact that at the moment the distinction is being made, a young adult, as opposed to an adult, is the one reading it. In other words, I don’t entirely believe in the distinction. A great book is a great book, and it’s impossible to say what part of a person is going to connect to it. - Kristin Cashore

Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.'Subliminal messaging works! - Nick Jimbanis

On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they'd liked what I'd written and by the by, more about them than I'd ever elicit from two minutes in a tent at a book festival, stuck behind a signing desk. - Sara Sheridan

I read because one life isn't enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody. - R. Peck

Make not the scars of yesterdayMake you bitter todayYesterday has passedAnd like water in a river once passed Can never be returnedThe KhoiSan Book of Wisdom - rassool jibraeel snyman

To call yourself an author takes publishing one book. To call yourself an inspirational author is the work of a lifetime that requires being constantly kicked in the stomach, only to get back up on your feet and show the world how you survived it each time. - Shannon L. Alder

There's nothing like a printed book; the weight, the woody scent, the feel, the look. - E.A. Bucchianeri

Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. - Anita Silvey

The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den. - Phillip Adams

You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one. - Jayce O'Neal

Life is like a Book, Everyone has their own new chapters - snowrinn

A book comes and says, 'Write me. - Madeleine L'Engle

Before I start a project, I always ask myself the following question. Why is this book worth a year of my life? There needs to be something about the theme, the technique, or the research that makes the time spent on it worthwhile. - David Morrell

However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book? - Saadi سعدی

A life is like a book of many chapters, some interesting, a few boring,a handful sad,one or two memorable, many joyful and others thoughtful. - Elzabeth Adeniyi

Learning to read is one of the most extraordinary gifts you'll ever receive, so open up God's Word and read the most extraordinary book ever written. - J.E.B. Spredemann

oh god i live in sea of shallow people ..i hope someday find who really deeper than every book i read it.. - angham

Book collecting is a full-time occupation, and one wouldn't get far if one took time off for frivolities like reading. - A.N.L. Munby

Every book contains a secret – even the writer doesn't always know what it is. - Carla H. Krueger

I didn’t intend the book as anything therapeutic and I don't think that’s a novel’s goal or responsibility. - Hanya Yanagihara

The worth of a book is infinite. - Lailah Gifty Akita

God is a book I can no longer read. - Floriano Martins

I am not afraid of giving bad reviews. If I don't like a book, I don't like it. Period. I don't do promotion - Bookvergent

This book is like an engineering masterpiece, can't be bad ! No matter what it will always be the greatest of all.See this link for more information:jeffabbott.com.panic - Jeff Abbott

Jesus never wrote a book; never went outside his country. His only legacy was to never compromise the good. And it was more than enough for the world. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

A good story or a book is all about it's power to hold it's readers still till the very last word of it's climax - complexity in language, dialogues, descriptions, everything else is secondary! - Mehek Bassi

We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I don't believe in ONE holy book. I believe all books are holy. Of course, some books are holy shit. - John Raptor

God is the only book that can never be touched, open and seen. - Michael Bassey Johnson

~Reading a book is like looking through a window! - Zetta Hupf

Don't run around looking for someone who can sexually satisfy you, run around and look for the book which will intellectually satisfy you. - Michael Bassey Johnson

The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19) - Augustine of Hippo

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world. - Jeanette Winterson

People want one book to read about the topic and to learn everything, unfortunately I was the same guy, the same person. Who wanted the same, but most stuff and for the most clever and intelligent people is mystery. - Deyth Banger

All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read. - Ann Marie Frohoff

If you are brave, you will open the book and read it. - Lailah Gifty Akita

In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out. - Unknown

A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie. - Nikita Dudani

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. - James Goldsmith

A book can transform your life and add new dimensions to the way you think. - Scholar Talks

The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social dislocation seemed to me shortsighted.... To write a book set in the present, circa 2013, is to write about the distant past. - Gary Shteyngart

The ABC's success by Bob Proctor is one powerful book, such books are rare. Even sometimes it's hard to find a book which is based on somebody's experience... fantasy??For god sake, one drop truth which is about from 10% up to 20% and the other from 80% up to 90% it's a lie. - Deyth Banger

Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d die, we’d wander around and sleep like cats. - Ray Bradbury

The book and I secret ourselvesBehind the paneled door.We merge our thoughts in retrospectOf ancient mystic lore.We spend a pleasant quiet hour,Nor know it passed us by...The easy chair, the shaded lamp,A well-loved book and I. - Edna Moore Schultz

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. - Walt Whitman

If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'. - Lemony Snicket

Who, however, is in doubt ‘and’ awe (thaumázein) about a matter doesn’t believe in the thing to begin with. That is why the friend of Stories (mŷthos) is also in a certain way a philosopher; because the Story arises out of awe.’ (’s Metaphysics: Book I. Part II) - Aristotle

Every book is a safe heaven, many people don't see it but I do.I see my chance to escape and be safe, I see the choice to stop or jump over the yelling, I see the key to help me get a better person.I see not different worlds, no, I see my universe. - I wrote it

If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.- Toni Morrison - Sean Liburd

Personally, I believe Young Adult to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really boring. - Shannon Hale

The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the past and the present, the employment of mind and dissipation of unpleasant ideas which only reading could produce made her thankfully turn to a book. - Jane Austen

He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself. - John Milton

Whether you are trying to finish a race or a book or that hard conversation you've been avoiding, the training leading up to that event is what makes it possible to face the fear & walk forward anyway. Quit complaining about discipline & start seeing it as a powerful tool for courageous living. - Annie F. Downs

Destroying a book is not the same as destroying a human lif. It is much more serious. For when you end the life of a book you destroy the ideas of countless thinkers who inspired it, and condemn future generations to darkness and ignorance. - Photozeiger

The book is the most technologically advanced invention in the history of humankind. - Kambiz Mostofizadeh

Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. So wide his erudition's mighty span, He knew Creation's origin and plan And only came by accident to grief -- He thought, poor man, 'twas right to be a thief. Romach Pute - Ambrose Bierce

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. - Salman Rushdie

Feminists who accept the claim made in The Book of Genesis, and, that God is a he, need to make their minds up. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think. - Harper Lee

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it - James Bryce

No one has a favorite book - they just fall in love with the spell the author put into the pages. - McKenna Paulson

I call my it "the Book of Paula" or BoP for short. Those are my own opinions, based on experience. - Paula Heller Garland

As Harvard Business School professor Peter Bregman advises, 'Don't write a book, write a page...Don't expect to be a great manager in your first six months, just try to set expectations well. - Shawn Achor

Now, go, wirte it before them in a table and note it in a book, that it may be fore the time to come for ever and ever. Isiah 30:8 - Isiah from the bible

I consoled myself with Granddaddy's words on the fossil record and the Book of Genesis: It was more important to understand something than to like it. Liking wasn't necessary for understanding. Liking didn't enter into it. - Kelly Jacqueline

When the first book out my sister-in-law read it and we were chatting at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and she said, "Oh my God, chapter six, sex and a murder," and her five year old wandered into the kitchen and said, "Sixty hamburgers? - Sara Sheridan

There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine. - Charles Lamb

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. - Jorge Luis Borges

I used to think of them as prolegomena for a book; now I would see a book as prolegomena for the notes. - Jeff Nunokawa

A book is simply a snap shot of the full story. - Erica Goros

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it. - Moses Hadas

Substance of your belief has nothing to do with the size of the book you use or how often you open it. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

A book is sacred gift. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book. - R.D. Laing

Everyone is a different book, with a different cover, different contain but the question is do you dare to open it? - Deyth Banger

You can kill a book quicker by your silence than by a bad review. - E.A. Bucchianeri

If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your're writing fiction. - Shannon L. Alder

What makes a good book? Simply put, a good book is one that you enjoy reading. - Carmela Dutra

The book is man's best invention so far. - Carolina Maria de Jesus

Parents often ask - how do I get my child interested in books and reading? One tried and true way that my late husband and I used was paying them to read. For each book that my sons read, we paid them $1. They soon developed a love for reading and forgot all about the money. Amazing but true! - Soraya Diase Coffelt

We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true. - J.R.R. Tolkien

We are metered only by our own machines,while the book is a clock that forgets her machanics. - Amy King

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public. - Winston S. Churchill

Even though everything today is available at a click of a mouse still, the smell of a book and its feel makes the experience of reading very special and personal. It is more tangible and I urge all youngsters to read a lot as it will also broaden their horizons. - Shallu Jindal

Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy. - Bertrand Russell

Nobody reads poetry anymoreSo who the hell are youI see bent over this book? - Aleksandar Ristović

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. - Henry Ward Beecher

The best self help book I've ever read was, The little Engine that Could. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

My death granted immortality.With one look, I knew he’d be my undoing… Forgotten, book #1 of the Fate Trilogy - Sarah J. Pepper

I'm going to write a book about an intelligent woman who does stupid things when it comes to men. I'll call it, "My Memoirs. - N.M. Silber

I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones. - Santosh Kalwar

Create a guidebook of creative dreamsYou can use a blank book or just blank paper clipped together. Put photographs or scraps from magazines in that represent your creative dreams. Draw, scribble, or paint in between the images. Make a list of creative dreams you've thought of or admire in others. - S.A.R.K.

Seeing your own name on the book cover is like hearing your book saying, "Hi. Thanks for writing me! - Alvi Syahrin

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads. - Sherman Alexie

If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. - Ursula K. Le Guin

I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In today’s society, there’s so much pressure to communicate, eat out, be friends with people. Why can’t you read a book on your own? Why have you got to have a book club? - Nicky Wire