Book Quotes · Page 133

I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.

— Judy Garland

Each book gets harder, each book gets harder and harder. I always feel like crying when I have to write.

— Sandra Cisneros

I really don't think I have lived my life as an open book.

— Archie Manning

My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book.

— Joy Fielding

“Just finished [Capitalist in North Korea]—fascinating! What an experience. Wow.”

— Justin Rohrlich Emmy Award Winner Head Writer Minyanville's World In Review

But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.

— Bryce Courtenay

My life has always been an open book and it's not such an eventful life.

— Randhir Kapoor

“Trump voters hate my books. They can't stand it when a book makes them think.”

— Oliver Markus Malloy

My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but…

— Diana Ross

“That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though…

— Jamie Craig

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool…

— Wilkie Collins

I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and…

— Poppy Z. Brite

There is a British pop group called God. At a recent book signing the lead singer introduced himself and gave me a…

— Anonymous

So every so often, when I meet someone who's honestly appalled by my books and doesn't understand why they would be attractive…

— Daniel Handler

All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. /…

— Roald Dahl

After I published my first book, my sister, known as Kali Willows, began writing. She fell as in love with it as…

— Franny Armstrong

Simon's walls were covered in what looked like pages ripped from a comic book, but when I squinted, I realized they were…

— Kelley Armstrong

Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he's one of our greatest composers, and its good…

— Ice Cube

I definitely love history. I'm not formally trained or educated in history, but you could say I did go back to college…

— Oliver Stone

'Rent' was wonderful in that I was able to adapt something that was beloved to fans, something that was very iconic, but…

— Stephen Chbosky

“One: A Library Is the Size of the Universe and the Universe Is the Size of a Library. Two: Everyone Is Looking…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“What are you doing with all these books?" I asked, stepping towards a tall stack on the floor. I ran my fingers…

— Anna Carey

Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating…

— Dwight Garner

In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it…

— Arthur C. Brooks

I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.

— Tove Lo

No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.

— John Quincy Adams

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

— Truman Capote

From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

— Gary Vaynerchuk

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.

— Edward Gorey

I have been an art director, a book designer, a book-jacket designer and an interior designer.

— Milton Glaser

Nothing ever invented can you a bigger life than a book.

— David McCullough

“Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.”

— Anonymous

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

— Paulo Coelho

“And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?”

— Lewis Carroll

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

— C. S. Lewis

Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.

— Henry David Thoreau

Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.

— Cassandra King

“Seldom happier than when I'm on my own, lost in a book.”

— Martin Edwards

The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.

— Julian Barnes

Life is messy; it's not linear, it's not logical, and the book reflects that.

— Rose Quiello