Book Quotes · Page 130

No eyes can read the future, because it is a book not yet written!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

— Dawn Addams

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

— Jon Weisman

Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.

— Richard Denney

I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.

— Tracy Chevalier

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.

— Vincent Starrett

The dumbest childhood vow I ever made was to finish every book I started.

— Lionel Shriver

It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise…

— Alain de Botton

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the…

— Oscar Wilde

As Jules Renard said, no matter how much care an author takes to write as few books as possible, there will be…

— Donald Barthelme

For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.

— Anne Lamott

We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but…

— William James

I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works.

— Buzz Osborne

“I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got…

— Anne Holm

Anytime you start doing a comic book with mythology attached, people are like, "Are you going to get it right? It's important…

— Tom Cavanagh

“Energy is a being yet is not. For it to materialise it must be pure thus it turns into a crystal like…

— Kia Carrington-Russell

Everywhere I go, the kids call me 'the book lady.' The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of…

— Dolly Parton

He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading…

— Ernest Hemingway

If I am a liberal-libertarian, it is clear that the book of Shemot, or if you want it in English, the book…

— Javier Milei

I know my comfort zone and I know what my strong points are and my first love was always music. I'm a…

— Christina Aguilera

“I wanna know something,” Lexi said. “In mystery books, clues come flying out of nowhere in every single chapter. Why is ours…

— Vila Gingerich

Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and…

— Michael Hardt

“Life is like a book. You read one page at a time, and hope for a good ending.”

— J.B. Taylor

A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

— Alaa Al Aswany

Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.

— Richard Russo

Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.

— Markus Zusak

I'm not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film.

— Jasper Fforde

I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.

— Emily Watson

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

— Charlie Trotter

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a…

— Philip Reeve

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

— Arnold Bennett

Each record in the 'Book of Angels' series is meant to be unique in terms of the compositions.

— John Zorn

This year, more people will use cocaine than will read a book to their children.

— Anonymous

I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.

— Norma McCorvey

It is one of the great charms of books that they have to end.

— Frank Kermode

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

— Sarah Dessen

almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial.

— Tom Robbins

You can't learn mental fortitude in a book. Those things are earned, not learned.

— Caleb Plant