Book Quotes - page 5

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial. (Flannery O’Connor)
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. View quote
Moses Hadas
Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page. View quote
Sidney Sheldon
I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples. View quote
John Updike
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God. View quote
Daniel Webster
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. View quote
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. View quote
Truman Capote
Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book. View quote
John Donne
Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book. View quote
Moby
Alas it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them. View quote
Carlos Fuentes
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. View quote
Italo Calvino
The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism-Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860-it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason. View quote
John Singer Sargent
A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
One cannot review a bad book without showing off. View quote
W. H. Auden
A book worth reading is worth buying. View quote
John Ruskin
A book is a gift you can open again and again. View quote
Garrison Keillor
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. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
A man will turn over half a library to make one book. View quote
Samuel Johnson
When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it. (Philip Roth)
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. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Reader, look Not on his picture, but his book. View quote
Ben Jonson
My life is an open book. With illustrations. View quote
Hugh Hefner
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. View quote
Maya Angelou