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It is not simply a theological treatise, a code of laws, a religious homily, but the Bible - the book - while the only book for the soul, the best book for the mind
View quotes by Herrick Johnson

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
View quotes by Harper Lee

Anyone can write one book: for instance even politicians do it! Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.
View quotes by Len Deighton

When I asked Harvey Smith to choose a book to take to the desert island, he laughed and said he had never read a book in his life.
View quotes by Roy Plomley

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.
View quotes by Umberto Eco

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
View quotes by Thomas Love Peacock

There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, 'Did you get an erection?' If the answer is 'Yes' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.
View quotes by W H Auden

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
View quotes by Virginia Woolf

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
View quotes by Lord Byron

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.
View quotes by Eric Brown

I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book.
View quotes by Arnold Toynbee

The age of the book is almost gone.
View quotes by George Steiner

I have read your book and much like it.
View quotes by Moses Hadas

The book you don't read won't help.
View quotes by Jim Rohn

It is now several months since I promised to give you my reasons for preferring the Bible as a schoolbook to all other compositions. Before I state my arguments, I shall assume the five following propositions:

1 . That Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and that in proportion as mankind adopts its principles and obeys its precepts they will be wise and happy.

2. That a better knowledge of this religion is to be acquired by reading the Bible than in any other way.

3. That the Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.

4. That knowledge is most durable, and religious instruction most useful, when imparted in early life.

5. That the Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life.
- Benjamin Rush, Essays, pp. 93-113, 'A Defence of the Use of the Bible as a School Book'.
View quotes by Benjamin Rush

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Each book first begins with a little idea.
View quotes by Dick Bruna

The spy who came in from the cold. (Title of book)
View quotes by John Le Carre

'anybody can write a book, 'cause everybody has a story to tell'
View quotes by Marianne Moore

A book should be an ice-axe to break the frozen sea within us
View quotes by Franz Kafka



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