Book Quotes · Page 116

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book

— Sara Paretsky

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

— Brooks Robinson

“A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time.”

— Tom Robbins

The thing I can't remember is, what came first? Us or the book?

— Michael De Luca

Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.

— Stephen Collins

What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It's a great book. But try to be a filter, not a sponge.”

— Stephen Chbosky

As I do with all of my books, I outlined The Beach House from the beginning to end.

— James Patterson

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same…

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university…

— Jasper Fforde

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what…

— Susan Sontag

As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and…

— Betty Smith

Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why…

— Stephen King

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

— Maira Kalman

In law school, we studied the famous book 'Getting to Yes,' co-written by the head of the Harvard Law School Negotiation Project.

— Erin O'Toole

My whole thing is, I collect what I know I want to read, and I have certain bookshelves in my bedroom that…

— June Squibb

The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything…

— Stacy Schiff

Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact…

— Omar Khayyam

FAQ regarding my book were not about my use of commas or how the images went berserk, but about the political situation…

— Sasa Stanisic

I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with…

— David Mitchell

That's a movie quote, right? You know, if you do that with books, people think you're intelligent." Sophie lowered her chin. "If…

— Jennifer Crusie

“If arts and music, precious gifts in themselves, were akin to memory, literature was the self-knowing of the species; the human mind…

— Mark Cantrell

This book is the best treatment of the best American Marxist philosopher-and the best philosopher to emerge from American slums. Young Sidney…

— Cornel West

I grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the…

— George R. R. Martin

I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child.

— Tilda Swinton

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

— Walt Disney

We go to a book as Narcissus went to the fountain, see ourselves therein, and are enamored

— Jim Rohn

I wanted to write a book for children about animals that would be factual, different, fun and varied.

— Michaela Strachan

We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us.

— David Platt

When we meet and I discover that we have read and loved the same books, we are instant friends.

— Donalyn Miller

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

— Gabrielle Zevin

“My body is no longer mine. My soul dormant. I am once again, possessed.

— Kia Carrington-Russell

The number one book of the ages was written by a committee, and it was called The Bible.

— Louis B. Mayer

I had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke.

— Jory John

I priced my books at what I would want to spend on an electronic book.

— Amanda Hocking

My freind is the man who gives me a book I aint read."Abraham Linclion

— John Flanagan

My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.

— Honeysuckle Weeks

“Books can send you to another dimension, a dimension exclusive only for the readers.”

— My Self

Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

— Rodman Philbrick

“Getting married early is like wrestling with calculus on a merry trip to Las Vegas!”

— Kiran Joshi