Book Theme Quotes

You don't have to change the world; you change yourself and the rest works out. ~ Christie Valentine Powell

I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book ... on my computer! ~ Meg Cabot

I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either. ~ Mary Russell Mitford

I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books - brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and would re-create them for battered people, and re-awaken joy and magnanimity. ~ James Branch Cabell

If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble. ~ Terry Pratchett

An intelligent man will use a book to settle an argument. Preferably a hardback with a thick spine, flat across the bridge of the nose. ~ Shatrujeet Nath

The most reward experience is having another writer come up to you and say that they started writing because they read my books. That is how writing as a profession continues: readers becomes writers who inspire new readers. ~ Michael Scott

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write. ~ Pearl S. Buck

Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it. ~ Mark Twain

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Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil? ~ John Gay

The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, which means the "Way of the Eternal," is the ancient scripture of Eckankar, the science of Soul Travel and total consciousness.

Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad Book One ~ Paul Twitchell

I am delighted with the book! I could spend my whole life reading it. - Catherine Morland ~ Jane Austen

[On her and husband Michael Dorris:] We both have title collections. I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to draw these scraps of experience or conversation or memory to it. Eventually, it collects a book. ~ Louise Erdrich

No book worth reading ever fails to be steeped with the spirit of the person who wrote it. ~ Paul Leicester Ford

Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance. ~ Steve Erickson

I usually get up not before 9. I have a huge library - I'm a big fan of Scandinavian crime fiction - so I'll usually take a book and go off to one of my favorite bistros for a cappuccino or espresso or maybe I'll have some lovely smoked salmon for breakfast. ~ Anthony Geary

I replied with an Avenian accent. "Is the priest of this church still here?"
"No." He squinted at me. "Never seen you before. You from out of town?"
"I've never seen you before either," I said. "So maybe you're the one from out of town."
That amused him. "My name is Fink. Well, that's not really m name, but it's what everyone calls me."
"What's your name, then."
"Dunno. Everyone just calls me Fink."
"Don't you have anywhere else to go?"
"Not really. Why d'you want the priest?"
"A doctrinal question. What punishment does the Book of Faith recommend for a kid who's being too nosy? ~ Jennifer A. Nielsen

I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw. ~ Natalie Babbitt

Cat's waiting is a kind of love. ~ Jie Zhang

They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely. ~ Gustave Flaubert

[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers. ~ Dorothy Parker

Great is bookishness and the charm of books. ~ Augustine Birrell

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions. ~ Robert Jackson

Stop thinking about the steps. There are no moves in blues, only movement. Just listen to the music," Matt whispered into my ear.
I let go, softening into his arms. The sways became steps, and without even realising, I was dancing. ~ Renee Conoulty

If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I'm bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things. ~ Hugh Jackman

... my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me ... "
"I've never much cared for horror stories. ~ Anthony Horowitz

Death is the Inevitable Price We Must Pay. ~ Ellen J. Barrier

As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from the vantage point of his wondrously serene old age, he contemplates our lives almost as if they were books he can dip into whenever he wants. His back pages, perhaps. ~ Angela Carter

Disbelievers can be good, solid people who love their spouse and children and live ethical, productive, meaningful lives. At the same time, disbelievers must understand that educated, informed, and sincere people can believe in the reality of Joseph Smith's revelations, the truth of the Book of Mormon, and the divine inspiration behind the church. They are not covering up secret doubts nor are they victims of false consciousness when they bear testimony. There are informed people who genuinely believe in and belong to the church. I am one of them. ~ Patrick Q. Mason

Life was a too-tall stack of books that had started to lean to one side, and each new day was another book on top. ~ Rebecca Stead

Hurry up, Hodgeyboy! You run like a fat badger after Sunday tea." Mibbitwiss ~ Kathy Cyr

I'm so not a comic book guy. The most I knew about 'The Flash,' as a little kid, was the Underoos. I had 'The Flash' Underoos. ~ Jesse L. Martin

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it. ~ Aman Jassal

The power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work. ~ Jeanette Winterson

Cause I'm just - I want to go to Amsterdam, and I want him to tell me what happens after the book is over, and I just don't want my particular life, and also the sky is depressing me, and there is this old swing set out here that my dad made for me when I was a kid.'
'I must see this old swing set of tears immediately,' he said. 'I'll be over in twenty minutes. ~ John Green

Somehow I had a premonition of what I so often felt at later times: that you did not have the right to open a single book unless you engaged to read them all. With every line you read, you were breaking off a portion of the world. Before books, the world was intact, and afterwards it might be restored to wholeness once again. But how was I, who could not read, to take up the challenge laid down by all of them? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

You just have to sit down and write the next book. I mean, it's not all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as much for the next one. I don't worry about that because I try to worry about the one single part of the job I can control: the writing of the book. ~ Jeff Abbott

View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it. ~ Anne Tyler

Love is many things. It's every raw human emotion rolled up into one messy four letter word. There's no rule book and definitely no guarantees. ~ J.L. Berg

This book I'm reading says if you want to be as thin as a stalk of celery, then that's what you should be eating. I'm not sure I want to look like celery, but I know I don't want to look like a biscuit. ~ Rebecca Rasmussen