Book Quotes · Page 126

The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.

— Stephen King

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

“All that counts is that a child says at the end of the book, ‘Again!”

— Anonymous

“When you write a book, you have total control of the universe and everyone in it.”

— Greg Iles

“Today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten.”

— Natasha Bedignfield

Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.

— William Shakespeare

I'm passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.

— Beth Ditto

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession.

— Abraham Lincoln

“I think we should always remember that reading -- the experience of a book -- is a very private, very personal kind…

— Lloyd Alexander

I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be…

— Ed Stoppard

A writer is always observant, of course... You can take the kernel of something - part of it - and use it…

— Carol Higgins Clark

I think it's good that we're not embarrassed that we're comic book creators anymore. It's good that people are able to make…

— Jonathan Hickman

“Books are a weird collaboration between author and reader: You trust me to tell a good story, and I trust you to…

— John Green

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not…

— David Walliams

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

— Charles Darwin

I felt slightly snobby about the genre. My pre-conceived notion of the comic book world had been: "Oh, that's nothing that I…

— Matthew William Goode

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of…

— David Mitchell

Any alphabet book for children where 'P is for Patti' Smith and 'X is for the women whose names we don't know'…

— Francesca Lia Block

I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would…

— Fred Saberhagen

When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have…

— Paul Auster

Next to the Bible, the book I value most is John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. I believe I have read it through at…

— Charles Spurgeon

You've got to give kids really beautiful children's books in order to turn them into revolutionaries. Because if they see these beautiful…

— Tony Millionaire

Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody.…

— Jon Meacham

The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they…

— Henry David Thoreau

Life is to short to waste time looking things up in a book. Just go to Google!

— Anonymous

I've never tried to pass myself off as anything more than a comedian who wrote a dating book.

— Greg Behrendt

No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck.

— Woody Allen

“How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book?”

— Florence King

I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

— Ernest Hemingway

They tell you not to judge a book by it's cover. Why don't you freaking listen to them.

— Andy James

I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.

— Michael Caine

I've signed peoples' parole cards at book signings and it's very touching.

— John Waters

I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.

— Paul Auster

A lot of my books have started with an abstract premise.

— Colson Whitehead

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

— Anonymous

I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

— Lurlene McDaniel

Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.

— Junot Diaz

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

— Thomas Carlyle

I have just about every book written on the Klan and I've read them all.

— Daryl Davis

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.

— Antonia Fraser