Quotes about Books
...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
— William Faulkner
The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.
— Mortimer Adler
Newland never seems to look ahead,' Mrs. Welland once ventured to complain to her daughter; and May answered serenely: 'No; but you see it doesn't matter, because when there's nothing particular to do he reads a book.
— Edith Wharton
Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It's been printed all over, so I don't feel like I am hiding anything.
— Joel Osteen
But if you command me to believe or to get rid of certain books, I will not obey; for there you are a tyrant and overreach yourself...
— Martin Luther
In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro. (Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)
— Thomas a Kempis
England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.
— Victor Hugo
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
— John Milton
all heathen books are poisoned through and through with this striving after praise and honor.
— Martin Luther
I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic, although Judas, Ananias, Pilate, or Herod were its author.
— Martin Luther