Book Quotes · Page 123

I'm an appreciator. I love all kinds of books, and I want others to love them, too.

— Michael Dirda

When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.

— Elizabeth Berg

I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.

— Mary Karr

A city without books, a city without a library is like a graveyard.

— Malala Yousafzai

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

— Stanley Kubrick

I am particularly wary of authors who put themselves on the cover of their own book.

— Andy Dunn

Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side - and don't be stinchy, beby.

— Greta Garbo

The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.

— Richard Serra

“...being daunted by her father in every intellectual attempt, she read every book that came in her way, almost with as much…

— Elizabeth Gaskell Wives and Daughters

I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world…

— Evan Peters

My first book was so horrible I have deleted all copies of it. Thankfully, it was before the Internet, so there are…

— Andy Weir

A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a…

— J. Patrick Lewis

The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it,…

— Jonathan Swift

she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an…

— Milan Kundera

It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football,…

— Gregg Easterbrook

Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and…

— Anna Quindlen

My wife, Amanda, is terribly good at warping reality. She is like a bowling ball on a rubber sheet, and you find…

— Neil Gaiman

Having your book edited is like watching your cat being operated on. It's uncomfortable and someone is probably going to get hurt.…

— Jenny Lawson

I write to remind myself of the pain. My words represents the tears that have fell, the paper resembles the words and…

— Anonymous

Before I published my first book, I worked for a while as a documentary and wedding/bar mitzvah videographer, and a part of…

— Stefan Merrill Block

“A novel, or a book on philosophy, is going to use both sides of the brain: not only will you have feelings…

— Philippa Perry

“Used books,” as if someone else has had the best of them and you get the sere husk, or the lees, as…

— Deborah Meyler

“You, the reader, make the book, but the book does not in itself exist between these decomposing covers. You read the script,…

— Jason Henderson

“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party ...”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Is a self help or personal development book ruining your life?”

— Ken Poirot

“A book is a friend that gives all it has in return asks for nothing except its safety”

— Bharath Swaminathan

“Books are the salt of life; without them, there is no flavor.”

— Cheryl Koevoet

My mind is like a book. closed to people and full of words that dont want to be read.

— Kezz Marrow

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

— Ann Patchett

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.

— Gustav Klimt

A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

— Louis L'Amour

Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.

— Casey Affleck

I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.

— Mattie Stepanek

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

— Jasper Fforde

What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.

— Anis Mansour

I knew that if I was going to write a book, I was going to have to read one, too.

— Michael Showalter

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

— Sherman Alexie

I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College.

— Samuel Parris

When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.

— David McCullough