Book Quotes - Page 239

More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.

I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.

Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see. The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers.

Larry Geller’s Leaves of Elvis’ Garden is by far the best book I have ever read about Elvis. It is emotional, revealing and spiritual, and offers the most amazing insight into the king. I highly recommend this dynamic book.

A good friend is like a wonderful book, the inside is even better than the cover!

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

The good of a book lies in its being read.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

A boy has to peddle his book.

I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine assignment. It's almost like his story sort of fell in my lap.

I want to spend my life with someone and do nice things and go on adventures, read books and have nice food and celebrate things. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in the bedroom like some people who just go to bed and never get out again.

In fact, it is precisely because we have changed books that the chaos in our country has gotten worse than ever before.

If you read Mein Kampf, Hitler's book, which I have outside, I bought it when I was eleven, Hitler said, "democracy inevitably leads to Marxism" - now you work that one out. It's so interesting that when the poor have the vote they will use it to remove the privileges of the rich.

And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.

All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder. For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd. I could tell you things about Peter Pan and the Wizard of OZ, there's a dirty old man!

I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too.

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

I was in three of the Harry Potter films without reading one of those book, quite thankfully.

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days.

I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.

It's an unusual way to write a crime novel, to have these lingering, fairly large story points, but it's something I knew I had to do if I wanted to write a sequel...but, you know, people still have to read and enjoy this book, or it's a moot point.

I had simply been inspired by Arthur Godfrey (40's) and Ukulele Ike and Cliff Edwards (20's). In there day, they were huge in this country. I bought Godfrey's book "You Too Can Learn To Play Ukulele" and taught myself. It's a very romantic instrument. You can take it on a canoe.

The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know.