The Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any
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I never knew a girl who was ruined by a book
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What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.
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A book has but one vioce, but it does not instruct everyone alike.
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In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
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A book comes and says, Write me. My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
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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.
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No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author
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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
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A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out
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This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
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.. The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of a person we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation--a book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
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When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name
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I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
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If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
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You write a book like that that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer
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There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that [the books] have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
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We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.
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A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three
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