A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
W. H. Auden

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
Theodor Geisel

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
Flannery O'Connor

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
Flannery O'Connor

A book worth reading is worth buying.
John Ruskin

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
Bertolt Brecht

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
John Ruskin

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
John Ruskin

I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.
Jay London

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
St. Jerome

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Charles Baudelaire

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
Cesar Chavez

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
Norman Mailer

When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
Norman Mailer

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.
Britney Spears

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.
Marilyn vos Savant

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
Carl Sandburg

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl Sandburg

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
Carl Sandburg