Book Quotes · Page 127

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

I don't buy books, ever... and I only tend to read the sports press.

— Roberto Carlos

“The intellectual mind judges a book after having read it. A fool’s mind judges a book by its title.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

To me one of the most important things is launching a children's book division.

— Maria Rodale

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

— Abraham Lincoln

My creator owned books sell better than my mainstream books. And that makes no sense.

— Kelly Sue DeConnick

The Bible is the book I read. It's got answers for everything.

— Scatman Crothers

What's most interesting about some books is the question: How did this crap ever get published?

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the…

— Richard Henry Stoddard

I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book…

— Ethel Waters

I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects…

— Bill Bryson

They’re always like, 'That’s not what happened in the books, so the show’s really bad now.' But really, they just feel insecure…

— Maisie Williams

I know what kind of books I read on vacation, and it is not necessarily 'Diplomacy' by Henry Kissinger. No disrespect to…

— Meghan McCain

I'd read the book and liked the book, but it made me really uncomfortable trying to picture myself in this part. Here's…

— Robert Pattinson

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

— A. S. Byatt

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books…

— Jack Prelutsky

I dont want to be a book, When you dont know the story what so ever, I dont want to be your…

— Myothersweetangel199 SparklingAngel25

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three…

— Jodi Picoult

In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing…

— Herman Kahn

[...] "I recall what you said to me once," Will went on. "That words have the power to change us. Your words…

— Cassandra Clare

It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be…

— Matt Ridley

What I love about the thriller form is that it makes you write a story. You can't get lost in your own…

— Harlan Coben

I have a very big apartment in Paris but you can't really move around there anymore; piles of books everywhere. I don't…

— Peter Lindbergh

Probably a good idea, let me know how it ends" "I already know how it ends" "You read the ending first?" "I…

— Jayne Ann Krentz

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

— Tao Lin

I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.

— Paulo Coelho

I started writing serious books so late because I knew Id be accused of riding on my fathers coattails.

— Thomas Steinbeck

A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.

— David Shields

I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

— Jodi Picoult

Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care.

— Binyavanga Wainaina

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

— John Lydon

“This book is dedicated to everyone who has ever been told they can’t. Let’s jump off the cliff together.”

— Christine Zolendz

It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.

— Sara Sheridan

“Don't say negative things about your spouse and children.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Why don't you write books people can read?(to her husband James)

— Nora Barnacle

No book I publish will be perfect, but I need to feel I've taken it as far as I can.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“But holding a book always puts me at ease, knowing a happy ending is between my fingertips.”

— Jenni L. Walsh

We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.

— Barack Obama

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

— Laurie Halse Anderson

while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.

— Edith Roosevelt