Book Quotes

You can read hundreds of spiritual books, study all kinds of scriptures, but the final truth is an experience in silence.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.

I’m glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I’m glad many people read my book and found out the truth.

I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women’s dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born, Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.

One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.

Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

There’s so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.

I’m a writer, and I will write what I want to write.