Book Quotes · Page 128

Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.

— Neil Gaiman

“Corrupt people fear books because they contain something more powerful than themselves: ideas.”

— Brandt Legg

Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.

— Adam Young

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

— Julius Lester

O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.

— William Shakespeare

“That one special book that takes you on a trip you never expected to go on...”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.

— John Hughes

It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable.

— Charles Wright

I had ideas about music and sound and listening and time and so on that I wanted to pursue as an individual,…

— David Toop

I said: 'I'm throwing in my job, and I'm going to write a book.' Everyone thought: 'She's off her trolley,' and it…

— Sara Sheridan

I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And…

— Katherine Paterson

Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can open it anywhere. One I read…

— Maya Angelou

I don't think money can be understood through a lens limited to economics. And most books about money tell you the history…

— Kabir Sehgal

The problem with making movies is that you have to devote so much of your life to fawning and flattering the men…

— Richard Flanagan

“It't hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

— Tom T. Hall

A form wherein we can enjoy simultaneously what is best in both the novel and the short story form. My plan was…

— Junot Diaz

Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Most men have a sunny spot to which they look back in their existence, as most have an impossible future, to attain…

— George Whyte-Melville

Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn’t help but notice which…

— Alice Hoffman

You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of…

— Swami Vivekananda

The thing is, 'Discworld' had been going on for a very long time, and I've written children's books as well. Usually when…

— Terry Pratchett

We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because there's no need…

— Daniel Pennac

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a…

— Groucho Marx

I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.

— Anonymous

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

— Tracy Chevalier

A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.

— Emily Barton

Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living.

— Rosemary Clement-Moore

When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)

— Markus Zusak

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.

— Stephen Chbosky

Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.

— Umberto Eco

'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book.

— Gerald Durrell

'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte has been my all-time favorite book since I was in middle school.

— Rebecca Serle

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

'The Book of Love' is the kind of James L. Brooks mainstream movie that the majors are ignoring.

— Dean Devlin

People call books holy, but they are yet to realize that life is holy.

— Jaggi Vasudev

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

— Rainn Wilson

I always rip out the last page of a book, then it doesn't have to end. I hate endings.

— Steven Moffat

There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie.

— Dick Wolf

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.

— Maurice Sendak