Book Quotes · Page 109

A big book is a big misfortune.

— Callimachus

“Without books, I would have gone insane long ago.”

— Damien Echols

No book of mine is complete without a dog.

— Peter Temple

Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

“Sow good seeds for a good yield.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

— Michel de Montaigne

And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.

— Cherie Priest

Form and content must never apologize for each other.

— Scott McCloud

“It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.”

— T.S. Eliot

But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.

— Alison Bechdel

The Bible is not a book of principles to live by but rather a Person to live for.

— Mark Driscoll

I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times...

— Maxwell Perkins

Books changed my perception about the sacrifices we make as athletes.

— P. R. Sreejesh

Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.

— Anonymous

Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.

— Martin Cruz Smith

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

— Sandra Cisneros

Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the…

— Jasper Fforde

There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to…

— Mark Twain

The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too.

— Neil Gaiman

There are books on my shelf that I'm not into. They are things I don't know anything about yet. It's going to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Our audience is all the girls who made Britney a huge star. Those are the girls who bought the book. I didn't…

— Virginia Madsen

I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children…

— Caitlin Flanagan

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print.…

— Carol Shields

“I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there…

— Michael Moore

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off…

— Anna Quindlen

This is much more than your typical thriller. Tim Johnston has written a book that makes Gone Girl seem gimmicky . .…

— Alan Cheuse

There are several sources for my appreciation of pastors and the way they are described in this book. One of them is…

— Marilynne Robinson

Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm…

— Robert Walser

First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance…

— Bernard Malamud

We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often…

— Gary Frank

What keeps this industry alive is creators doing their own work. Once you change a costume or origin enough times, it's a…

— Mike Mignola

“Her self, then, was represented in her books.”

— Claire Messud

A classic is a book that remains in print

— Mark Van Doren

I don't read my reviews, I measure them.

— Arnold Bennett

“You can go anywhere in books”

— Paul Graham

“I just take a book everywhere with me. It's a habit.”

— Rory Gilmore

“You can't have too much dog in a book.”

— Gail Honeyman

Contrary to what people think, I slave over my books.

— James A. Michener

“Share a book and you'll make a friend!”

— Annie Lang