Book Quotes · Page 141

I want to do a musical. I want to write a book. I have all these ideas and I can't get away…

— Saara Aalto

“I wrote this book to inspire young women to be brave and believe in themselves.”

— Sherine Calloway

When I found out that Snooki got a book deal I was more confused than a blind lesbian at a fish market.

— Anonymous

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

— Stephen Vincent Benet

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay…

— Asne Seierstad

I always write with images. I cannot write a book if I don't have images.

— Paul Virilio

“There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others. - Chris Geiger”

— Chris Geiger

Smart, sharp, and hilarious, Slaughterhouse 90210 is the perfect pick-me-up and never-put-me-down book.

— Jami Attenberg

“Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to…

— Henning Mankell

For a perfect holiday I need my iPhone and my writing tools. I write all my books by hand so black felt…

— Jackie Collins

(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor!

— Robin Sloan

I wrote one book, signed with a good agent, and sat back and waited for the phone to ring. I was sure…

— Deb Caletti

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels…

— Thomas Lennon

People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down…

— Gore Vidal

We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied,…

— Jeanette Winterson

(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping…

— George Will

My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me. While the…

— Aga Khan IV

You have to find a way of shutting the future out and focusing on the writing. One of the problems I'll have…

— Ayana Mathis

God gave me this great book to preach from, and if He has put anything in it you think is not fit,…

— Charles Spurgeon

“though books, as Milton says, may be the embalming of mighty spirits, they are also the resurrection of rebellious, reactionary, fantastical, and…

— John Cowper Powys

Be interested in everything. You don't have to adore it. I don't adore hip-hop, I don't think it's great music, but I'm…

— Mel Brooks

Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When…

— Cornelia Funke

Sometimes when I find myself very irritated about a topic, I know it's my next book.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

— Jean Rostand

“All writers are readers first, and all of us write the sort of books we want to read.”

— George R.R. Martin

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

— Gail Carson Levine

Pollio, who values nothing that's within, Buys books as men hunt Beavers, -- for their Skin.

— Benjamin Franklin

Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.

— William Shakespeare

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

— Antonia Fraser

You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.

— Bobby Fischer

“People aren't like books. You can't set them on a shelf and expect them to stay there.”

— Bailey Nadeen

Bite me." -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.

— Anonymous

It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

— James Patterson

There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books.

— E. Nesbit

I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

— Alice Walker

To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you're not

— Jim Rohn

I know every trick in the book, in terms of schemes and fraud.

— Lori Lightfoot

A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

— Chip Kidd