7,778 Quotes About Book

Books are the only things worth stealing.

If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit

Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers

And as he watched them walk out of the orphanage, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the blank pages of a book in which he had written the initial chapters of a story he would never be allowed to finish.

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him. He can hear the devil’s defense and god’s accusations. The guards at the king’s heart let him in. The writer can be anything and any one he wants. When he writes he is a god, he creates.

The internet is killing the art of writing. The big "publish" button begs you to publish even before you go back and make one single edit, and as if this was not enough, you have instant readers who praise your writing skills!-

Never in our silent moments of illusion do we sense the dark parallel that lives next to us. Nor do we suspect the carrier.

Owning a book is a third of the goal. The others are actually reading it and applying it.