Book Quotes · Page 139

“One book, printed in the Heart's own wax / Is worth a thousand in the stack's”

— Jan Luyken

“I was a child who loved books, and I am an adult who is the product of books.”

— John Connolly

I first heard of [Orfeo Angelucci] from Giuseppe Conti who gave me some books by him.

— Paul Laffoley

I think am the favorite BOOK of BillIONs of Readers and Song for few Blinds!

— Junior Dè Rèál Testament

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?

— John Gay

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

— Paul McCartney

To be involved with books is to live at the heart of light.

— Mary Cantwell

It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall…

— Anonymous

The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express…

— Richard Bach

“Boys forget what their country means by just reading 'The Land of the Free' in history books. Then they get to be…

— Anonymous

I never read a book if I'm auditioning for a film based on it. I like to stick to the script only…

— Sophie Nelisse

Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like…

— Marianne Williamson

“Book collecting is an obsession, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who…

— Jeanette Winterson

I love 'The Gourmet Cooking School Cookbook' by Dione Lucas. A huge source of information and inspiration. The book is organized by…

— Alex Guarnaschelli

If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop…

— Jim Rohn

Brad got me this great thing for Christmas. It's a bookshelf that has a book on every religion. That's how we plan…

— Angelina Jolie

“I kept waiting for the book to appear. The wait grew more frustrating when my son entered school and was taught the…

— Charles C. Mann

“Every time you read a book that is worth anything, the author has put everything they know into that book, so when…

— Caitlin Moran

I hadn't read any of the books before, but I have since we started. It's so funny because I'm reading a book…

— Angie Harmon

I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it:…

— Gary Oldman

'What It Is' was based on this class I've been teaching for 10 years - I wanted to write a book about…

— Lynda Barry

Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain…

— Joseph Brodsky

“Oliver's boardroom was actually a library. A good library. A library where books looked worn-out and well read and loved on. The…

— Natalie Lloyd

Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.

— Matthew Specktor

“You'll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through

— Mohsin Hamid

We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.

— Anne Waldman

I want to write books that only those who read them claim they did.

— Vikrant Parsai

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

— John Green

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

— Tony Judt

I'm the world's worst at reading reviews and then pretending I've read the book.

— Abi Morgan

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

— Veronica Roth

“Don't let anything get in the way of reading a good book”

— Abby Noland

“The person following is never in control, which she knows full well and which is exactly why she does it.”

— Sara Gruen

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

— Edward P. Morgan

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

— Anonymous

I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.

— Lauren Oliver

When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.

— Fanny Fern

When I was quite young my parents never said books were off limits.

— Anonymous