Top 70 Too Far Book Quotes

#1. Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

Philip Yancey

Too Far Book Quotes #151
#2. Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.

W. H. Auden

Too Far Book Quotes #341
#3. Curiously, the most serious religious people, or the most concerned scholars, those who constantly read the Bible as a matter of professional or pious duty, can often manage to evade a radically involved dialogue with the book they are questioning.

Thomas Merton

Too Far Book Quotes #486
#4. Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the action. I think that's what set it apart from many of the other comic books. In the case of Wolverine, when he appeared, he was a revolution really. He was the first anti-hero.

Hugh Jackman

Too Far Book Quotes #533
#5. Not for the first time Spooner was reminded that marriage was not the straighforward assembly the instruction book led you to believe.

Pete Dexter

Too Far Book Quotes #535
#6. Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books.

Carolyn Hart

Too Far Book Quotes #713
#7. A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Too Far Book Quotes #834
#8. I am completing a book I began back in 2002 called 'Poems in the Manner of.' 'The Matador of Metaphor' is from this manuscript. It is an homage to Wallace Stevens that appropriates certain of his techniques.

David Lehman

Too Far Book Quotes #1139
#9. You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.

Chris Crutcher

Too Far Book Quotes #1270
#10. Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.

Margaret Atwood

Too Far Book Quotes #1288
#11. In the Book of Benamii, we have all read that it's better for one person in power to die, if their rule is unjust, than an entire nation to forget the God who made them.

Michelle Erickson

Too Far Book Quotes #1508
#12. I've been trying for two years to read this book, and I never get past these first few pages.

Paulo Coelho

Too Far Book Quotes #1593
#13. I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them.

Gene Wolfe

Too Far Book Quotes #1664
#14. To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Too Far Book Quotes #1780
#15. That's still the best reading experience: falling in love with a book I meet by accident.

Alice Hoffman

Too Far Book Quotes #1807
#16. Learning from books and teachers is like traveling by carriage, so we are told in the Veda. But, the carriage will serve only while one is on the highroad. He who reaches the end of the highroad will leave the carriage and walk afoot.

Johannes Itten

Too Far Book Quotes #1984
#17. Emily wondered whether Artie would be so carefree if he knew The Book Club was performing grand theft imagination.

S.A. Tawks

Too Far Book Quotes #2006
#18. Can I ask what you're reading?" ... She turned the book so the cover faced me. Wuthering Heights. "Have you read it?" She said. I nodded. I could feel the pulsating beat of my heart behind my eyes. "It's a sad story." "Sad stories make good books," She said. "They do.

Khaled Hosseini

Too Far Book Quotes #2072
#19. Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his own heartbeats. Lying beside him is his wife, lying on her right side and enjoying her sleep.

John O'Hara

Too Far Book Quotes #2251
#20. When I first opened this book and saw all those scholarly footnotes, my heart leapt up as though I saw a host of golden daffodils.

Steven Moore

Too Far Book Quotes #2313
#21. I'm excited about how books work in a digital age. When you read a book, unlike a film, you are decoding symbols in order to 'see' the story, so it is collaborative in a way that a film can never be.

Steven Hall

Too Far Book Quotes #2344
#22. The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others.

Milton Friedman

Too Far Book Quotes #2349
#23. Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are plenty of editors, reviewers, critics, and book buyers to do that.

Jane Yolen

Too Far Book Quotes #2429
#24. When her mind was discomposed ... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose.

Ann Radcliffe

Too Far Book Quotes #2466
#25. A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

Alfred Kazin

Too Far Book Quotes #2472
#26. The thing is, what I'm tryin' to say is -
they do get on a lot better without me, I can't help them any. They ain't mean. They buy me everything I want, but it's now - you've-got-it-go-play-with-it. You've got a roomful of things. I-got-you-that-book-so-go-read-it.

Harper Lee

Too Far Book Quotes #2525
#27. The book of Isaiah is a tract for our own times; our very aversion to it testifies to its relevance.

Hugh Nibley

Too Far Book Quotes #2565
#28. Klaus had not told his siblings about the book, because he didn't want to give them false hope.

Lemony Snicket

Too Far Book Quotes #2621
#29. Each returning soldier is an in-the-flesh memoir of war. Their chapters might vary, but similar imagery fills the pages, and the theme of every book is the same
profound change. The big question became, could I live with that kind of change?

Ellen Hopkins

Too Far Book Quotes #2699
#30. I hate it when I have to wait the next book in a series to come out.
Don't you hate it when you have to wait for the next book in a series to come out?

Patrick Rothfuss

Too Far Book Quotes #2714
#31. Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a leading role.

Susan Ertz

Too Far Book Quotes #2718
#32. A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Brendan Behan

Too Far Book Quotes #2794
#33. A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

Jim Jarmusch

Too Far Book Quotes #2816
#34. An excellent indie horror book with a wholly original premise.

Mike Carey

Too Far Book Quotes #2846
#35. The change starts when you start watching a video. You don't see it, you don't feel it but it starts at this moment, just by reading a complicated book or watching a film you again change... It's a fact!

Deyth Banger

Too Far Book Quotes #3222
#36. Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

Benjamin Disraeli

Too Far Book Quotes #3321
#37. The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures
I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a book, and you are able to stroll along both the real and imagined road.

Paul Theroux

Too Far Book Quotes #3335
#38. We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual reality.

M.R. Mathias

Too Far Book Quotes #3472
#39. You will never know what fascinating book waits within ... Until you start writing!

Isis Charest

Too Far Book Quotes #3534
#40. I love the smell of old books, Mandy sighed, inhaling deeply with the book pressed against her face. The yellow pages smelled of wood and paper mills and mothballs.

Rebecca McNutt

Too Far Book Quotes #3572
#41. These are my wakeup cupcakes, some anti-depressants, and a cell phone book

Courtney Love

Too Far Book Quotes #3825
#42. He is a blind man and I am his book of braille. His breath against my collarbone raises goosebumps on my arm as I let him read my story.

Alanna Rusnak

Too Far Book Quotes #3884
#43. With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.

Ray Bradbury

Too Far Book Quotes #3932
#44. History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.

Amit Chaudhuri

Too Far Book Quotes #3944
#45. I know some people see it as this success when the book is finally made into a movie - that marks its success. I don't see it that way.

Robin Hobb

Too Far Book Quotes #3990
#46. There is one "right answer" to any question, and it is in the book to be read.

Joseph Barrell

Too Far Book Quotes #4109
#47. There was something about a book that inspired dedication and a swelling desire to possess it.

Kate Morton

Too Far Book Quotes #4112
#48. It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like 'Goon Squad' could win an award like that. It's such an iconic honor. I think what the Pulitzer means to me is that I'll need to work very, very hard to try to live up to it.

Jennifer Egan

Too Far Book Quotes #4188
#49. The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

Mortimer Adler

Too Far Book Quotes #4211
#50. I am a gypsy, Mahgen. What that means is that sometimes I do shit. On purpose. Shit, that pisses people off. And I like it. A lot.
-Madison Thorne Grey, Sustenance

Madison Thorne Grey

Too Far Book Quotes #4213
#51. Dedication Do you love Janie and Quinn? If so, this book is dedicated to you. *fist bump* *high five* *bottom pat* ... too far?

Penny Reid

Too Far Book Quotes #119996
#52. People are far too quick to judge others, especially when they don't have the full facts.
--from the book For Reasons Unknown

Michael Wood

Too Far Book Quotes #122620
#53. One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago
I met a little girl with a book under her arm.
I asked her why she was out so early and
she answered that there were too many books and
far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.

Tove Jansson

Too Far Book Quotes #129914
#54. I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

Jack Vance

Too Far Book Quotes #159517
#55. Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.

Larry Hagman

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#56. - The problem with a book is that you never know what it's planning to do to you until you're too far into it.

Marlon James

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#57. I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise.

Chip Kidd

Too Far Book Quotes #513175
#58. No persons or events mentioned in this book should be confused with real persons or events. Reality is far too strange for that.

Jo Nesbo

Too Far Book Quotes #555086
#59. I knew that I had to find out more about van Gogh. Even though I was far too young, and felt I did not have sufficient technique to write a book about Vincent van Gogh, I knew I had to try. If I didn't I would never write anything else.

Irving Stone

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#60. The arm of the Federal government is long, but it is far too short to protect the rights of individuals in the interior of distant States. They must have the power to protect themselves, or they will go unprotected, spite of all the laws the Federal government can put upon the national statute-book.

Frederick Douglass

Too Far Book Quotes #816636
#61. Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

Francis Bacon

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#62. A character like Wonder Woman is so iconic and yet, over the course of her history, there have been lots of subtle changes. We couldn't stray too far from the comic book look, but you do have a certain amount of leeway in terms of how you interpret those elements for animation.

Bruce Timm

Too Far Book Quotes #1126046
#63. Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

Garth Ennis

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#64. It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.

Zadie Smith

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#65. Quiet book-learning in monasteries and ethereal music, sonnets and courtly lovethat stuff is all fantasyand veneer? You couldn't afford to let the beauty of the thing seduce you too far or you forgot the truth and the truth was always hard as iron bloody bars.

Janice Galloway

Too Far Book Quotes #1395298
#66. Unfortunately, in many cases, the rule book goes way too far - it tries to tell people how to be instead of explaining what we're trying to do.. We need recipes, not rules.

Howard Behar

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#67. The covers of this book are too far apart.

Ambrose Bierce

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#68. Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.

H.P. Lovecraft

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#69. Plus as she put it, Prince Eric was far too hairy and peach colored for her taste. I always thought he was pretty hott, but then again, I am a mammal.

Kiersten White

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#70. I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

Rita Dove

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