Book Quotes · Page 124

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

“Put your nose in a book. That’s the best thing for you.”

— Kathleen O'Dell

I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.

— Arnold Lobel

“Every book contains a secret – even the writer doesn't always know what it is.”

— Carla H. Krueger

If I'm on the road for Random House, I'm presenting a book with the hope people will buy it.

— Elizabeth Berg

I one time hooked up with somebody off an app who gave me an autographed copy of a book he wrote.

— Scott Evans

“The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first.”

— Blaise Pascal

When I was 15 my great Aunt Nancy gave me a book of Alan Bennett plays, and I thought he was the…

— Harry Enfield

I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write…

— Patrick Duffy

It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another…

— Rickey Henderson

A million dollars sounds like a lot, I know. Especially when you're young. But you can't let money erode your principles or…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in…

— Sven Birkerts

I had thought up the title, 'The Good Luck of Right Now,' several years ago. I had no idea what it meant…

— Matthew Quick

To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited…

— David James Duncan

I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach…

— Paul Auster

I may be the person who put "dieselpunk" into the conversation. I have always been a reader who reads in a really…

— Emily Barton

'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory.…

— Nancy Werlin

…a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also…

— Anonymous

I couldn't listen to music with lyrics for the first few months after the brain surgery, because they were too complex and…

— Rosanne Cash

The book is an experience that allows you to witness your feelings without having to surrender to them, to succumb to them,…

— Michael Silverblatt

You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a…

— Lloyd Jones

What I intend to do is uphold a standard of intellectual seriousness on the right. [These books] should be written in a…

— Adam Bellow

There are so many times in my life when I wish I had the power to destroy anyone who would threaten or…

— Bao Phi

I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the…

— Warren Buffett

I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.

— Taslima Nasrin

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

— Peter Ackroyd

I want to read a lot of books and not live lazily. I want to become intellectual.

— Minzy

I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

— Mick Taylor

Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

— Charles Dickens

I think one of the mistakes typically with authors is they have written more books than they've read.

— Larry Winget

I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.

— Brett Ratner

“P.S. Please give my love to Tink, she always was such a funny little bug”

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

“Q: Best part about being a musical theatre book writer? A: Explaining what that is.”

— Christy Hall

I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.

— Louise Brown

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

— Heinrich Heine

I know that my books are worthy, which is separate from me.

— Toni Morrison

The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book.

— Stephane Mallarme

The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.'

— Lionel Shriver

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

— George Washington

Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.

— May Sarton