You cannot open a book without learning something.

Confucius

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When the content of the Bible is believed, comprehended, understood and applied, it results in earth shaking profits.

Faith Abiola Oyedepo

Bible Believed Comprehend Earth

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We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

Jules Verne

Opinion Books Read

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Books make great gifts because they're everybody's favorite things

Julie Andrews

Books Gifts Everybody's Favorite

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I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

Gloria Steinem

Books Full Go Life

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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Between Book Deal Difference

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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Edmund Burke

Eating Like Read Reflecting

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Charles Dickens

Backs Best Books Covers

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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

Book Chapter First Honesty

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I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

Thomas Jefferson

Am America Become Book

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I cannot live without books.

Thomas Jefferson

Books Cannot Live Without

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I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.

Seth Godin

Book Bunch Economics Favor

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I think the definition of a book is changing.

Jeff Bezos

Book Changing Definition Think

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The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

Jeff Bezos

Book Container Create Itself

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I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'

Jeff Bezos

Novel Skeptical Will

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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

Jeff Bezos

Author Get Know Lost

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The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

Jeff Bezos

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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

D. H. Lawrence

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In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

Thomas Carlyle

Books Lies Past PastTime

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This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussion about the subject matter and I've had a good time talking about it. And in some of the cases, I'm not just signing books; I'm showing slides and talking about the work.

Leonard Nimoy

About Been Books Cases

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The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction.

Leonard Nimoy

Been Before Book Book Tour

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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Thomas Carlyle

After Become Books Collection

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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Louisa May Alcott

Books Chosen Enjoyable Few

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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

D. H. Lawrence

Books Emotions Master Presents

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Only in a novel are all things given full play.

D. H. Lawrence

Full Given Novel Play

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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

Samuel Beckett

About Another Beginning Book

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One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.

Langston Hughes

About Books Children Great

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Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

Langston Hughes

Get Go Like Somewhere

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I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread.

Leo Buscaglia

Anybody Books Bought Bread

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I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

Bill Gates

Book Lot Nice Obscure

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Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

Bill Gates

Digital Fantastic Lightweight Over

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I don't know how I do it, but I've written about everything. I've written about my shoes.

Lewis Grizzard

About Everything How Know

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I'd like to know what I could do if I really had the time to spend on writing a book, with no columns or shows to do at the same time.

Lewis Grizzard

Book Columns Could Had

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You can write the best column in the world on Monday, and it does you absolutely no good on Tuesday. There is no way to win. You just write until you are tired, they fire you, or you die.

Lewis Grizzard

Absolutely Best Column Die

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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Black Little Live Makes

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Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

Ulysses S. Grant

Bible Book Civilization Fast

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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

Umberto Eco

Against Also Book Books

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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Umberto Eco

Being Book Concepts Contains

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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

Samuel Butler

Books Just Oldest Only

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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Samuel Butler

Apology Books Case Devil

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European authors often write books about the rest of the world that profess a vision of shared humanity but fall far short, casting the other as exotic or dangerous.

Uzodinma Iweala

About Authors Books Casting

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Many great novels have shown a world torn to shreds by the brutality of war. To do so, their authors ground their texts in the details of destruction and decay.

Uzodinma Iweala

Authors Brutality Decay Destruction

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Sometimes writing it is a good way to understand something.

Uzodinma Iweala

Good Good Way Something Sometimes

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'Beasts of No Nation' began when I read an article about child soldiers in Sierra Leone during my final year of high school.

Uzodinma Iweala

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I've had great writing teachers and mentors and great success with my first book.

Uzodinma Iweala

Book First Great Great Success

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I've got to keep on writing. That's non-negotiable. At the same time, one has to look at the world and recognise that writing is not the only thing to be done - I want to have an effect on the world.

Uzodinma Iweala

Done Effect Got Keep

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'Talking Peace' is one of the few books from childhood that I still keep prominently displayed on my bookshelf.

Uzodinma Iweala

Books Childhood Displayed Few

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Anybody who tells you they're not scared when starting a new book project is a very good liar.

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I've been writing since I was really young.

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"530 Books Quotes

Confucius

Faith Abiola Oyedepo

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

Jules Verne

Books make great gifts because they're everybody's favorite things

Julie Andrews

I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

Gloria Steinem

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Edmund Burke

Charles Dickens

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

Thomas Jefferson

I cannot live without books.

Thomas Jefferson

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.

Seth Godin

I think the definition of a book is changing.

Jeff Bezos

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

Jeff Bezos

I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'

Jeff Bezos

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

Jeff Bezos

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

Jeff Bezos

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

D. H. Lawrence

Thomas Carlyle

This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussion about the subject matter and I've had a good time talking about it. And in some of the cases, I'm not just signing books; I'm showing slides and talking about the work.

Leonard Nimoy

The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction.

Leonard Nimoy

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Thomas Carlyle

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Louisa May Alcott

D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

Samuel Beckett

One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.

Langston Hughes

Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

Langston Hughes

I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread.

Leo Buscaglia

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

Bill Gates

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

Bill Gates

Lewis Grizzard

I'd like to know what I could do if I really had the time to spend on writing a book, with no columns or shows to do at the same time.

Lewis Grizzard

You can write the best column in the world on Monday, and it does you absolutely no good on Tuesday. There is no way to win. You just write until you are tired, they fire you, or you die.

Lewis Grizzard

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

Ulysses S. Grant

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

Umberto Eco

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Umberto Eco

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

Samuel Butler

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Samuel Butler

European authors often write books about the rest of the world that profess a vision of shared humanity but fall far short, casting the other as exotic or dangerous.