Book Quotes - Page 40

• We read to know we're not alone.

  William Nicholson

  Inspirational, Reading, Knows

  "Shadowlands". Biography, Drama, Romance, 1994.

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• We are free to burn the Qur’an or any other book, and to criticize Muhammad or any other human being. Let no one forget it.

  Sam Harris

  Forget, Muhammad, Criticize

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• I want the whole Christ for my Savior, the whole Bible for my book, the whole Church for my fellowship, and the whole world for my mission field.

  John Wesley

  Church, Want, Fellowship

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• Books make great gifts because they can unveil hidden secrets.

  Dan Brown

  Secret, Hidden Secrets, Great Gifts

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• Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

  William Ellery Channing

  Men, Roof, Every Man

  William Ellery CHANNING (1839). “Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838”, p.17

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• I invite you, wholeheartedly, to read books that remind you of your highest self and emancipate you from mental slavery or false beliefs and illusions. The more you invest in attracting books that resonate with the frequency of your true self, the more light you will bring to the world.

  Carlos Santana

  Light, Self, World

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• We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.

  Sam Harris

  Games, Toilets, Violent

  "Bombing Our Illusions". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2005.

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• It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.

  Sam Harris

  Religion, Ordinary, Stills

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• As theories increased, simple medicines..were forgotten, at least in the politer nations. ...Medical books, were immensely multiplied,...(towards) an abstruse science, quite out of reach of ordinary men.

  John Wesley

  Dark, Simple, Men

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• I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

  Ken Thompson

  Jobs, Writing, Fog

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• Unlearned men of books assume the care,
  As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.

  Edward Young

  Men, Library, Care

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.357

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• The librarians know the secrets, not the historians

  Dee Brown

  Secret, Library, Librarian

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• I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

  Andrew Lang

  Flower, Garden, House

  Andrew Lang “The Selected Works of Andrew Lang”, Library of Alexandria

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• It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

  Voltaire

  Fire, Light, Library

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4316, Delphi Classics

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• E-books are impervious to analogy.

  Scott Adams

  Library, Analogies, Impervious

  "A Cartoonist's Venture Into the World of E-Books" by Scott Adams, www.nytimes.com. November 5, 2001.

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• The way an old dog finds his way back over miles and miles to his home when somebody trues to shove him off on a farm someplace, that is how I find my way back to the library. It's my place, even more than my place is.

  Chris Lynch

  Dog, Home, Library

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• So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.

  John Fahey

  Country, Song, Writing

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• Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill, the "art," is to make those compromises both artistically valid and essentially your own. . . . It has been said before but is worth reiterating: writing a novel is like swimming in the sea; writing a film is like swimming in the bath.

  William Boyd

  Art, Writing, Swimming

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• The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.

  Mickey Spillane

  Inspirational, Important, Stories

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• I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all.

  Andre Dubus

  Believe, Writing, Dark

  "The Exchange: Andre Dubus III". Interview with Kate Bittman, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.

  Andre Dubus

  Attention, Be Careful, Careful

  "The Exchange: Andre Dubus III". Interview with Kate Bittman, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2011.

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• This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

  Richard Powers

  Character, Expression, Ideas

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• Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

  Adam Johnson

  Character, Years, World

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• If I wake up in the morning and I don't want to get you a coffee or if I don't see you for a week and I don't want to go figure out something to FedEx you, then we've got a problem. You can fake the words I miss you, but you can't fake getting someone a book.

  John Mayer

  Morning, Coffee, Fake

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• The Bible must be the invention of either good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. It could not be the invention of good men or angels, for they neither would or could make a book, and tell lies all the time they were writing it, saying, 'Thus saith the Lord,' when it was their own invention. It could not be the invention of bad men or devils, for they would not make a book which commands all duty, forbids all sin, and condemns their souls to hell for all eternity. Therefore, I draw this conclusion, that the Bible must be given by divine inspiration.

  John Wesley

  Lying, Inspiration, Angel

  John Wesley, John Emory (1835). “The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc”, p.554

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