Quotes About Books

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

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.

For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.

Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children's children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses in them up until the day God created the Red Sox.

God makes trees, he doesn't write books.

The Bible is actually a library of books-some long, some short- written over hundreds of years by many authors. Behind each one, however, was [the] Author: the Spirit of God.

Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all the great books. And no book ever created a soul.

In books I converse with men, in the Bible I converse with God.

God bless Interlibrary Loan. I pay a lot of library fines. In the case of 'A Single Shard,' I was using books that hadn't been checked out in 30 years, so I didn't feel too bad.

God is religion; religion is God! There is no need ever for holy books, for holy rules or for so called holy envoys! God is religion; religion is God!

I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God.... My books are about killing God.

Books were the sustenance of God. And His munitions.

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

I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in books. God, forget scissors - that's beyond the pale.

Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and the night.

Boredom is why God invented books.

We don't know the Devil's side of the story, because God wrote all the books.

The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read.

Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.

Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends.

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.