Book Giving Quotes: top 68 famous quotes about Book Giving

Book Giving Quotes & Sayings

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When a good friend gives you his or her book, you don't want to read it, because you're afraid that it's not going be what you hope it can be. — John Hodgman

The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live. — Beth Moore

Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book. — Robert Southey

Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer. — Newell Dwight Hillis

All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in the written word better than I could. — Bill Wyman

A book is a most delightful companion. It gives, and does not take. — Moses Ibn Ezra

I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia. — Alberto Manguel

I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away. — Mary Grandpre

Having the book-club army embrace you is a gift that keeps giving for years. — Christina Baker Kline

If writing and publishing a book is like giving birth to a child, then book marketing is like rearing it. — Heather Hart

A book is a sacred gift. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college. — James McBride

I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books. — Rick Moody

If you see our best seller list, most of them are books that are given as gifts. They are books you give to flatter somebody. — John Gimlette

Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a leading role. — Susan Ertz

this book, giving voice to what is so basic among men and women throughout history, I have translated it "the Quester."] — Eugene H. Peterson

Happiness has more to do with giving than taking. Kamon 2015 — Kamon

Never underestimate the power of giving a book! — Carmela Dutra

Books alone are liberal and free; they give to all who ask; they emancipate all who serve them faithfully. — Richard De Bury

A book being read is a transaction between author & reader, a sharing, giving, taking & a reimagining of the author's offering. — Mark Rubinstein

The Book of Mormon is true, just what it purports to be, and for this testimony I expect to give an account in the day of judgment. — Joseph Smith Jr.

Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

It was like giving a Jewish kid a coffee-table book about Auschwitz. — Nell Zink

I jerk off inside books, and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you've probably never heard — Immortal Technique

Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty. — Karin Slaughter

Sport ... teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice. — Fiona Wood

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do — Ann Patchett

Writing a book is like giving birth. Marketing a book is like giving birth in the 12th century. — John Heartfield

If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in. — Emma Donoghue

I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books. — Emma Donoghue

When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports. — Patti Smith

Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp, — Tom Clancy

I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists. — Sunny

The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine ... that I may for a time forget the cares of the world. — Hafez

An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions. — Claud Cockburn

You can't really give away anything in your book ... should be exciting, it's my life, and I'm a cool and exciting guy. — Usain Bolt

The books [and games] that give us the most pleasure combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release. — Peter Turchi

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Osho's books inspire me to meditate. They give me peace of mind. — Kapil Dev

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it. — Bertrand Russell

We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament. — John Locke

If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved. — Markus Zusak

From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving. — Jeremy Taylor

I'm considering writing a self-help book and giving people 20 cents to read it. This way, I can be sure they all get new paradigms. — Ryan Lilly

Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else. — George Plimpton

Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say. — James Howe

A shame really, because putting the right book in the right kid's hands is kind of like giving that kid superpowers. — Cecil Castellucci

Don't give up before you get off your feet. Put the time in to learn what you can, build relationships, and develop quality content. — Heather Hart

One of the best book marketing tips I can give you is simply building relationships - well that and publishing more books. — Heather Hart

The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What could be more important than inspiring a child to read her first book and giving her the gift of confidence? — Kathy L. Patrick

I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book. — Elvis Costello

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind. — Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money. — George Eliot

If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book. — Ayn Rand

Bloom is not a book about living the perfect lifestyle, it's about giving you the confidence to find the lifestyle that is perfect for you. — Estee Lalonde

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away. — Douglas Coupland

Our minds are shaped by the books we read.
Our characters, by the people we meet.
Our spirits by the love we give. — Robin Sharma

It's an honor, indeed I'm glad, to join in giving a warm reception to a book that has given me many delightful moments. — Enrique Vila-Matas

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Why is it, that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard? — Malala Yousafzai

Giving back or giving forward is the one true law of marketing. — John Kremer

The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before. — Nicolas Chamfort

I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book. — James Joyce

God does not give us ready money. He issues promissory notes, and then pays them at the throne. Each one of us has a check-book. — Theodore L. Cuyler

A book is sacred gift. — Lailah Gifty Akita