Book Quotes · Page 105

A book brings its own history to the reader.

— Alberto Manguel

Of course. You get everything from books.

— Gregory Maguire

Books should cost less and they should be digital.

— Walt Mossberg

I always have a few different books going at once.

— Miranda Kerr

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

— Abraham Lincoln

“These books are as hot as it gets!”

— Richard R.J. Guarino

This book has too much plot and not enough story.

— Samuel Goldwyn

The best teacher teach from heart not from a books.

— Babloo

Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book.

— Liza Campbell

My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books.

— Josh Hutcherson

Through books we converse with the wisest and the greatest men of the past.

— Anonymous

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

— Josh Hutcherson

“Buying books always made me feel better, even if I never read them. - Florence Day”

— Ashley Poston

Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.

— Charles Fletcher Lummis

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...

— Keri Hulme

As you can tell from the titles of my books, I like to probe secret organizations, secret subjects. And this sometimes gets…

— Ronald Kessler

A book needs to be read first, not judged. A song needs to be heard first, not mocked. A person needs to…

— Mee

'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence.

— Libba Bray

I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that…

— Chip Kidd

It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no…

— Gertrude Atherton

“There are few things better than losing yourself in a book. And if you're lucky enough to have that adventure continue in…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I…

— Donald Miller

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

— Richard Cecil

“The book was written to embody an ideal. It was given to people who already had momentum in doing what was right.…

— Brandon Sanderson

I see this with experienced writers, too: They worry so much about the plot that they lose sight of the characters. They…

— Brian Michael Bendis

I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of…

— C. S. Lewis

Some say it is the elements of hope and wonder in children's books that make them special. But there are many dark…

— Katherine Paterson

There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. Knowing about God is all of the stuff we've been told and…

— Wayne Dyer

The Prisoner's Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of…

— Junot Diaz

All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that…

— Meg Cabot

Sandoz turned and accepted the book, looking at the spine. "Aeschylus?" Wordlessly, Guiuliani pointed out the passage, and Emilio studied it a…

— Mary Doria Russell

I've never written a book before.

— Keith Emerson

“Books exceed authors' lifespan.”

— Toba Beta

Good books are the warehouses of ideas.

— H. G. Wells

A home without books is a body without soul.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I didn't want to write the same book over and over.

— George Pelecanos

Every April God rewrites the book of Genesis.

— Austin O'Malley

“As long as music survives, poetry will never die.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson