2019 Books Quotes

He didn't understand that sometimes the only way to take down what had destroyed you was to disguise yourself as part of it. ~ Roshani Chokshi

When a man solved his problems by punching them, books were often a foreign thing. ~ Brian McClellan

Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books? ~ Helene Hanff

Don't give me books for Christmas; I already have a book. ~ Jean Harlow

It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time. ~ Margery Williams

A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary. ~ Richard Jefferies

Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them. ~ Tara Bray Smith

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. ~ William Osler

The Circle...

Ted Dekker is my inspiration, my favorite author, and my hero, so it should come as no surprise that my writing is consistently compared to his.

What if I told you that the reason I picked up his books is because my writing was compared to his? ~ Luke Alistar

Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival ~ Nora Gallagher

My dad loved the shit out of her and hardly ever knew what to say to her and she loved the shit out right back out of him and filled the silent part of their lives with books and coffee and other things. ~ Miriam Toews

You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe you ~ Gabrielle Zevin

I most likely like books which are out of my language... English... for example is a great example - Not my native language, but I enjoy the covers and how the words sound. ~ Deyth Banger

Children's books: Every time you find the right, the necessary, book for a child - a book about sadness overcome, unfairness battled, hearts mended - you perform the best kind of magic ... every time you give just the right book to just the right child, you're saying, "You, my friend, have potential." That is a gift. That is a miracle. And that is what you do, each of you, every single day. ~ Katherine Applegate

How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his books - gets to be in charge of the world's destiny? Or of the entire universe's?"

If he's not very good, why didn't you stop at one?"

Mrs. Tassenbaum smiled. "Touché. He is readable, I'll give him that - tells a good story... ~ Stephen King

At this point, caffeine wasn't for pleasure, it was sheer survival. ~ Stormy Smith

"For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that is eternal. It will become evident that formulations in words and the handling on of these formulations through writing are not only important aids but actually the only means by which humanity can have a history and continuing consciousness of itself." ~ Hermann Hesse

Take what interests and knowledge you can from books, but do not let them replace words and thoughts of your own. ~ Pai Kit Fai

My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children. ~ Khaled Hosseini

The overwhelming consensus is that the traditions contained within the epistle can confidently be traced to James the Just. That would make James's epistle arguably one of the most important books in the New Testament. Because one sure way of uncovering what Jesus may have believed is to determine what his brother James believed. The first thing to note about James's epistle is its passionate concern with the plight of the poor. This, in itself, is not surprising. The traditions all paint James as the champion of the destitute and dispossessed; it is how he earned his nickname, "the Just." The Jerusalem assembly was founded by James upon the principle of service to the poor. There is even evidence to suggest that the first followers of Jesus who gathered under James's leadership referred to themselves collectively as "the poor. ~ Reza Aslan

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

All your books wouldn't seem so well written if you were just a little more well read. ~ Craig Finn

All over the world, there are libraries of a sort. They are among the most beautiful places on the earth, and they hold more information than the Library of Congress. Within these libraries are millions of books, each a uniques masterpiece to see and touch. They are teaching this language to scientists. However, so far only one percent of the books have been deciphered. Some tell how to find new medicines; others reveal new things to eat ... These treasure houses of knowledge are the ancient forests of our planet. ~ Brock Adams

Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home. ~ Candice Olson

If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in your soul and then of course you study, read, you grow up and you begin to understand the message and that is the first step towards understanding life. ~ Maria Kodama

I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S. ~ Dave Eggers

THE SIMPLE UNION

Listen to me, O friend.

Be thou a yogi, a monk, a priest,
A devout lover of God,
A pilgrim searching for Happiness, Bathing in holy rivers,
Visiting sacred shrines,
The occasional worshipper of a day,
A great reader of books, Or a builder of many temples -
My love aches for thee.
I know the way to the heart of the Beloved.

This vain struggle,
This long toil,
This ceaseless sorrow,
This changing pleasure,
This burning doubt,
This burden of life,
All these will cease, O friend -
My love aches for thee.
I know the way to the heart of the Beloved.

Have I pilgrimage the earth,
Have I loved the reflections,
Have I chanted, singing in ecstasy,
Have I donned the robe,
Have I put on ashes,
Have I listened to the temple bells,
Have I grown old with study,
Have I searched,
Was I lost?
Yea, much have I known -
My love aches for thee.
I know the way to the heart of the Beloved,

O friend,
Wouldst thou love the reflection,
If I can give thee the reality?
Throw away thy bells, thine incense,
Thy fears and thy gods,
Set aside thy systems, thy philosophies.
Come,
Put aside all these.
I know the way to the heart of the Beloved.

O friend,
The simple union is the best.

This is the way to the heart of the Beloved. ~ Anonymous

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose. ~ Joseph Brodsky

Your friends are a reflection of you. ~ Elizabeth George

If you're a history buff, you know about J. Edgar Hoover. He was likely the most powerful man in the US. If you start reading about him, the books contradict each other constantly. I was often left with very little sense of the man personally. I had a sense of what he did and didn't do and what people disagreed about whether he did this or didn't do this or that, but I was like, "Why? Why was he doing all of this?" That was my big question. ~ Dustin Lance Black

It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching - it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life ~ Robin S. Sharma

'Drawn & Quarterly' has always given me complete editorial control over my books and comics, so any decision about what to include or exclude from the book was my own. ~ Adrian Tomine

Take my television. Take my computer. Take my cellphone. Take my music. But don't ever touch my books. ~ Kristen Darling

He was defiantly narrow-minded, barely educated, and at least close to functionally illiterate. His beliefs were powerful but consistently dubious, and made him seem, in the words of The New Yorker, "mildly unbalanced." He did not like bankers, doctors, liquor, tobacco, idleness of any sort, pasteurized milk, Wall Street, overweight people, war, books or reading, J. P. Morgan and Co., capital punishment, tall buildings, college graduates, Roman Catholics, or Jews. Especially he didn't like Jews. Once he hired a Hebraic scholar to translate the Talmud in a manner designed to make Jewish people appear shifty and avaricious. ~ Bill Bryson

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own. ~ Dejan Stojanovic