Book Quotes · Page 121

In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.

— Willa Cather

Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.

— Charlie Brooker

“There is nothing more fugal than a book to take you to different lands”

— Emily Dickinson

McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

— Margaret Atwood

I had the 'War of the Worlds' comic book. I had lots of comic books.

— Roky Erickson

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

— Robin Gibb

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

— Julia Alvarez

In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now…

— Eli Wallach

I have trained my eye over and over ever since I was a kid. I was a bird watcher when I was…

— Ellsworth Kelly

I'm not really sure what makes a book a 'classic' to begin with, but I think it has to be at least…

— Jeff Kinney

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in…

— Charles Lamb

“Books can be viewed as food for the mind Stop reading and your brain can become anemic Read junk and your thinking…

— Jonathan Frakes

[Asked about a book in which 100 Nazi professors charged him with scientific error.] Were I wrong, one professor would have been…

— Albert Einstein

For me my big dream that I would like to achieve is for each book to be better than the books that…

— Cassandra Clare

“Writing a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a…

— Marilyn Ross

The Irish Free State was one of dozens of new European democracies to emerge from the cauldron of the 1914-1918 war. It…

— John Bruton

I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that…

— Mary Oliver

I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves…

— Harlan Coben

Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking…

— Karl Schroeder

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented…

— Carl Sagan

Diversity worship and multiculturalism are currency and cause for celebration at just about any college. If one is black, brown, yellow or…

— Walter E. Williams

I once wrote deduceable instead of deducible in a book, though nobody then or since has taken me up on it. A…

— Kingsley Amis

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building…

— George Orwell

“Give me a book and I will learn how to live my life, but give me a boob, and I won’t need…

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Books aren't just books they're a completely different world in the palm of your hands”

— Charlotte

“it didn’t really matter what that book was about. It was what it meant that was more important.”

— Markus Zusak

Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't go anywhere without a book by James Joyce called 'Finnegan's Wake.'

— Johnny Depp

I go into a book store and start having heart palpitations. I get very excited.

— Katie Melua

“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures. (Face palm!)”

— George W. Bush

The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love…

— Laura Miller

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

— Hannah More

Writing the book automatically made me accept myself and love myself more.

— Erica Mena

I didn't want to write a 'black' book because black characters are a tough sell.

— Christopher Priest

I'm giving you a longing look ... everyday I write the book.

— Anonymous

A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city.

— Samuel Johnson

You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

— Oscar Wilde

“Books were her easiest friends. They demanded nothing from her but her attention.”

— Lorna Landvik

Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.

— Matthew Pearl