Book Quotes · Page 135

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

— Brit Marling

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

— Carly Fiorina

When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.

— Saint Augustine

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

— Orhan Pamuk

My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.

— Markus Zusak

I have a vision of the whole Church getting nearer to God by abiding by the precepts of the Book of Mormon.

— Ezra Taft Benson

I'm a huge Marvel Comics fan, and I'm a huge 'Wolverine' fan, I like the 'X-Men' comic book.

— Jason David Frank

...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to…

— Joe Torre

I've been writing the same book my whole life - that you're in one family, and all of a sudden, you're in…

— Ann Patchett

I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked…

— Mark Twain

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books…

— Ray Bradbury

I surrendered all my privacy to write this book. It was so hard and so painful. I went through so much crazy…

— Park Yeon-mi

Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of…

— John Darnielle

That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to find out what you're…

— Ornette Coleman

Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I…

— Ken Follett

As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for…

— Jonathan Stroud

I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time,…

— William Brinkley

“When a person reaches the end of a book and says, 'I want to read that again,' what he's actually saying is…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a…

— Margaret Atwood

I started to book good television jobs in 2010. I started to get really close to exceptional jobs in 2011, and then…

— Stephen Amell

I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Writing those books ['Beauty' and 'Style']was really eye-opening, as you realize just how much goes into beauty and fashion, and also how…

— Lauren Conrad

The problem is there are people in this country - maybe 10%, I don't know what the number, maybe 20% on a…

— Chris Matthews

The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.

— Patti Smith

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.

— Michael Moorcock

“Books are written little by little...as the cat eats the fish.”

— Lynda K. Scott

There will always be books as long as I am mentally capable of it.

— Ruskin Bond

I just want the fans of the book to be happy. I don't necessarily care about anyone else.

— Kristen Stewart

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

— Pete Seeger

As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children, or you read books for adults.

— Richard K. Morgan

“Unless paid, I never read books by or about businessmen or politicians, nor should anyone else.”

— Joe Queenan

The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.

— Blaise Pascal

The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

— Anonymous

Scar Tissue is the only book Ive ever written when Ive felt completely toxic, ill.

— Michael Ignatieff

“A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there.”

— J.R. Ward

I am going to write a book the title shall be The Love of my Life is it alright if you are…

— Gabe De La O

Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.

— Stephane Mallarme

Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

— Iain Banks

I wish my book of life had been written in pencil...there are a few pages I'd like to erase

— Julie Hernandez