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Book One Quotes & Sayings

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You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am." — John Guare

The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19) — Augustine Of Hippo

If God does not open and explain Holy Writ, no one can understand it; it will remain a closed book, enveloped in darkness. — Martin Luther

Listening to a book and in the same time playing chess is one of the best decision ever made. — Deyth Banger

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first. — Blaise Pascal

Anyone who thinks one book has all the answers hasn't read enough books. — Brian K. Vaughan

I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet. — William Everson

But Lou Anne, she understood the point of the book before she even read it. The one who was missing the point this time was me. — Kathryn Stockett

If you're looking to find a career that makes a difference - and work you really love - this book will show you how. — Paul Allen

I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one. — Jason Biggs

Chapters - Life has many different chapters for us. One bad chapter doesn't mean the end of the book. — Edenia Archuleta

So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write. — Lurlene McDaniel

One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page. — Rick Yancey

Be Careful Of Books. Be Careful With Books. Be Careful Or One Can Become A Weapon-Wielder. Be Careful Or One Can Become The Victim. — Cai Guo-Qiang

Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again. — Daphne Du Maurier

IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE — Charleston Parker

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there. — John Piper

My philosophy has always been if I can learn just one thing from an article or book on writing, it's worth it. — Writer's Digest Books

One of my most exciting Saturday nights was just me and a bottle of wine and a crochet book. — Jessica Pare

There really is no place like the one you find between the pages of a book. The only place that comes close is in the arms of the person you love. — Emma Hart

There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible. — L.M. Montgomery

By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons. I wouldn't recommend it. — J.G. Ballard

I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books. — Alan Shepard

Never trust a man who reads only one book. — Arturo Perez-Reverte

So close the book and go. The world is full of security systems. Hack one of them. — Cory Doctorow

A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous. — Emile M. Cioran

Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books — Meles Zenawi

Age is artificial. It's soulless. It doesn't matter one bit. — Laurie Faria Stolarz

I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen. — Thomas Carlyle

A book is a collected thoughts and lessons in one place, a quote is a lesson which is learnt. — Deyth Banger

One day, I'd like to write a book about the worst ads ever run, but my fear is that it would be too long. — Seth Godin

I thought of the past and how one should have respect for it, like the elderly. — Sloane Crosley

Still, I believe the first draft of a book - even a long one - should take no more than three months, the length of a season. — Stephen King

One always has riches when one has a book to read. — Jacqueline Winspear

For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent. — George Gissing

[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. — Anne Bronte

One of my favorite first sentences of a
book is from Rebecca, Last night I dreamt
I went to Manderley again. — Daphne Du Maurier

I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another. — Mary E. Pearson

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer. — Len Deighton

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own — Marilyn Vos Savant

But just because no-one sang the story, no-one wrote the book, no-one filmed it, that doesn't mean it didn't happen. — Christos Tsiolkas

Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it. — Alain De Botton

Even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump. — Edith Wharton

A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better. — Nicholaa Spencer

every time someone watches one of their (Kardashian) shows, a book commits suicide — Sonia Koso

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book. — Brit Marling

There is no one so grateful as the man to whom you have given just the book his soul needed and he never knew it. — Christopher Morley

This book is the story of the birth, growth, and future of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in the history of science: — Siddhartha Mukherjee

It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the subject. — Michael Lewis

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

A one-word book does appeal to me. — Kode9

They say you can't judge a book by its cover. I've learned that you can't judge a man by the one before him, either. — Adriana Locke

My dear Lady Kroesig, I have only read one book in my life, and that is 'White Fang.' It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another. — Nancy Mitford

One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time. — Daniel Handler

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. — Ray Bradbury

At least there is one book with which we all or few of us could have fun. — Deyth Banger

Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn't known I wanted. — Mary Ann Shaffer

More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week. — M.J. Rose

There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. — H.L. Mencken

Never judge a book by its cover, its contents may have the inspiration one needed for progression — L. Neal

One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was the only book which allowed him to forget politics. — Barbara W. Tuchman

No one likes my books except the public. — Mickey Spillane

One thing I often talk about in my business is that an eBook is not like a print book: it's very, very different. It's organic. It's changing. — Bob Mayer

Close counts in handguns as well, in my book," Remy argued.
"Your book is written in purple crayon. No one cares. — Abigail Roux

You can write books, but there's only ever one book that's really you. — Joan G. Robinson

There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books — Henry Miller

A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape.
Even when you're the one writing it. — Julie Wright

I just want you, to be mine, forever. I want a piece of you no one else has ever had, and I want you to own my heart forever. — Ashley Beale

The fact the book was a tragic one did not make me unhappy since I believed that life was a tragedy and knew it could have only one end. — Ernest Hemingway,

He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read. — Pyotr Kropotkin

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it. — Veronica Roth

He wondered how many other people were lucky enough to have an entire universe of need satisfied by one blond-haired man. — John Wiltshire

In one book, your father is a hero. In another book, he is a monster. The men who don't have books written about them have it easier. — Jaroslav Kalfar

Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book. — John Bosco

If people-young and old-can get one thing from my book I hope it is this: that there dream do count, no matter how big or small. — April E. Brucker

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learning to read is one of the most extraordinary gifts you'll ever receive, so open up God's Word and read the most extraordinary book ever written. — J.E.B. Spredemann

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one. — William Hazlitt

One of these days some simple soul will pick up the book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed. — Leonard Ravenhill

I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.' — Robert M. Pirsig

I see 'Hansel and Gretel' as a breakthrough book for me, and one of the reasons is because I started to apply meaning to the hidden details. — Anthony Browne

A man of one book, a student of many. — John Wesley

A good book is not the same as a successful one. — Johnny Rich

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. — Jonathan Carroll

With Groo, I try to do one story every book. Sometimes the stories are better if they go a little longer, and I choose to do it in four issues. — Sergio Aragones

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover. — James Gleick

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones. — Donna Tartt

He's back to eating cat food around the clock. And no abdominal workouts for that one. Every day of the year is fat cat day in his book. — Lauren Mechling

I read one chapter of a book and put it down. Thank God for Kindle. — Jimmy Fallon

I think one should express opinions and these books are relatively opinionated. They would be a bit dry without it. — John Gimlette

A book is like a quarrel. One word leads to another, and may erupt in blood or print, irrevocably. — Will Durant

When you find that one book, that one that makes you tingle. It's almost like you found a little piece of magic. — Carmela Dutra

One can never have too many books. — Reed Krakoff

Writing a book isn't an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life's most satisfying achievements. — Guy Kawasaki

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, Just as long as he finishes the book. — Roald Dahl

Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best. — J.R. Moehringer

I like that you can open up any one of my books anywhere and immediately be lost. I just love them so much. — Richard Bach