Books Quotes

I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.

The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings.

I think God destined that I play. I think it's all in the books already.

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.

Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear.

Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.

I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.