Burn This Book Quotes

#1. His fingers painted my skin with ruby red patterns of desire. In Keahi's kiss I could taste the red burn of chili encrusted in the rich sweetness of melted chocolate. I breathed in his scent and it spoke to me of vanilla. The ink of my malu tattoo began to burn, searing markings of fiery joy.

Lani Wendt Young

#2. There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury

#3. The lights burn bright for those who obey; the others will live in shadow all the days of their lives (The Book of Shhh, Psalm 17).

Lauren Oliver

#4. But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer ... well, it's like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good but then begins to eat you alive, burn you up from within. You can't just walk away from the fire; it keeps burning. The only way to put it out is to write the book.

Dean Koontz

#5. You need not to burn copies of a book. Just make people feel indifferent to the book.

Lara Biyuts

#6. I could not do it. I would not do it. I sat back on my heels with the book in my hand with the light of the fire flickering and dying down and realized that not even in mortal danger could I bring myself to burn a book.

Philippa Gregory

#7. [It] began to seem amazing how often it was assumed that having a vagina automatically meant I was less intelligent, talented, capable, and interesting than the world's least interesting human being who happened to have a penis.

Francine Prose

#8. They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em

Zack De La Rocha

#9. Use your intuition. Picture how things happen, why they happen. Don't stick rigidly to first impressions, and once you've read the rule book, throw it away. Better still, burn the bastard.

Andrew Barrett

#10. I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.

William Shakespeare

#11. No," said Dina. "We don't burn books."
"Who's we?"
"People with an ounce of brain.

G. Willow Wilson

#12. Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.

Ellen Hopkins

#14. I'll say whatever I want. I'm not a book. You can't burn me!

Kathryn Lasky

#15. Cut word lines - Cut music lines - Smash the control images - Smash the control machine - Burn the books - Kill the priests - Kill! Kill! Kill!

William S. Burroughs

#16. They're going to burn this complete collection of MacDonald's children's book There's a new translation out in paperback but I've always dreamed of eating the entire twelve-volume set in hardcover I refuse to watch something so delicious get turned to charcoal right in front of me

Mizuki Nomura

#17. Stop it. This is serious! (Selena)
Serious? Please. I'm standing out here on my twenty-ninth birthday, barefoot and in jeans my mother would burn, holding a stupid book to my chest in an effort to summon a Greek love-slave from the great beyond. (Grace)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#18. I would far rather burn my whole book, than that he or any other man should think i behaved in a paltry manner (Charles Darwin)

Abram Kardiner

#19. My men are my references. They're waiting outside for the books. They're dangerous."
"Men like that always are.

Ray Bradbury

#20. Relationships are like a book,
It takes few seconds to burn,
But
It takes years to write,
So write it carefully
And
Never let it burn

Aditya Nighot

#21. Ragnor's important business was probably getting together to write a burn book with Raphael. Magnus could see them now, sharing a bench and scribbling happily away about Magnus's stupid hair.

Cassandra Clare

#22. There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

Ray Bradbury

#23. That first meeting - the one where the hero and heroine start the slow burn that takes the whole story to turn into true love - is the single most important part of the whole book. Nail it, and you've won yourself readers.

Sarah MacLean

#24. Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.

Tommy Douglas

#25. We are free to burn the Qur'an or any other book, and to criticize Muhammad or any other human being. Let no one forget it.

Sam Harris

#26. Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book which will break your heart. [on Lord of the Rings]

C.S. Lewis

#27. Do you get the feeling with Sarah Palin, in high school, she was voted least likely to write a book and most likely to burn one?

Robin Williams

#28. Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.

Margaret Atwood

#29. Before bed, I read a book or flip on the radio - I'm not picky, I'll just turn it on and see what comes up. I burn a yummy lavender- scented candle.

Carrie Underwood

#30. The summer movies are coming out. My advice: just stay home and burn a good book.

Stephen Colbert

#31. Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

#32. Das war ein vorspeil nur; That was only a prelude; dort wo man Buecher verbrennt, Where one burns books, vebrennt man auch am Ende One will also burn people Menchen. Eventually.

Heinrich Heine

#33. I can't pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me.

Pat Conroy

#34. I possessed only a book, which I carried in my small backpack. Suddenly, while I was walking, the book began to burn. Dawn was breaking and almost no cars passed. While throwing the charred backpack in an irrigation ditch I felt my back sting as though I had wings.

Roberto Bolano

#35. Burn the books and trust the Book; shred the papers and hear the Word.

Salman Rushdie

#36. Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library-and a pen warmed up in hell.

Mark Twain