Book Quotes

Everything was so new

the whole idea of going into space was new and daring.

There were no textbooks,

so we had to write them.

Every book is a quotation;

and every house is a quotation out of all forests,

and mines,

and stone quarries;

and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

Be careful about reading health books.

You may die of a misprint.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

The man who does not read good books

has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.

True teaching cannot be learned from textbooks

any more than a sunbeam can be learned from a physics book.

Let us remember:

One book,

one pen,

one child,

and one teacher

can change

the world.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

'The Lorax' book was intended to be propaganda.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

You're never too old,

too wacky,

too wild,

to pick up a book and read to a child.

Every once in a while, I get mad.

'The Lorax' came out of my being angry.

The ecology books I'd read were dull...

In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack

what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.

The problem with writing a book in verse is,

to be successful,

it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon.

It has to sound easy.

When you can do it,

it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read on.

You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

I stay out of politics because

if I begin thinking too much about politics,

I'll probably... drop writing children's books

and become a political cartoonist again.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

I learned to read at age three,

and soon discovered there was a whole world,

to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Preachers in pulpits talked about

what a great message is in the book.

No matter what you do,

somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

Classic.

A book which people praise and don't read.