Book Quotes · Page 120

Books are ever available friends, ready to serve you at will.

— Grenville Kleiser

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

— Victor Hugo

I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.

— May Sarton

When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.

— Vivek Shraya

“This book does not exist. And even if it did, it wouldn’t be worth buying or reading.”

— Jarod Kintz

The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.

— Mickey Spillane

Some books are well-received with critics; other books sell.

— Colson Whitehead

“we are all privately agreed that it is better in books”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

— Pseudonymous Bosch

“Mr Pinch accordingly, after turning over the leaves of his book with as much care as if they were living and highly…

— Charles Dickens

People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to…

— LaToya Jackson

In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that…

— Khaled Hosseini

My first book was a historical novel. I started writing in 1974. In those days, historical novels meant ladies with swelling bosoms…

— Hilary Mantel

“I want to see my wife and children every day, I want to see my grass and blossoms and corn ... But…

— John Adams

I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured…

— Janet Fitch

I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one…

— Louis L'Amour

I'm fortunate enough to get to make books for a living, so I spend my entire workday alone in my studio quietly…

— Vera Brosgol

All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of…

— Khalil

We choose--or choose not--to be alone when we decide whom we will accept as our fellows, and whom we will reject. Thus…

— Gene Wolfe

The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry. And I think…

— Anonymous

Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to…

— Lev Grossman

I have a lot of books optioned. This one sat around for a while - part of that was just because I…

— James Franco

Inspiration is the most valuable commodity for an artist; it is for me anyway. I can't move forward in any way if…

— Mark Ryden

“So I picked the book up and did my usual 123 test. I don't bother reading the blurb on the back, or…

— Siobhan Curham

My go-to author for knowing it all is Evelyn Waugh. 'A Handful of Dust' is as perfect as a book can get.

— Laurie Graham

I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.

— Jo Walton

My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.

— Ernest Cline

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.

— Anonymous

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

— Rob Machado

Its a very good book and i wish i read it first than anyone else!!!!

— Wendy Mass

“It's all about the books. Please, somebody rein me in!”

— Terry Ech

Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.

— Zora Neale Hurston

“the wonderful thing about books was that they were films that played inside your head.”

— Ruth Hogan

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

— Louis Pasteur

“Choices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.

— Salman Rushdie

Sometimes readers are telling me about what they read of my books and I don't remember at all.

— Peter Handke

I'm the world 'Guinness Book of Records' holder of 1,749 hugs in one hour. My arms fell off.

— Nick Vujicic

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

— Philip Schaff