Book Quotes · Page 144

Unlike writing a book, which can take several years, baking is instant gratification.

— Jenna Blum

“Book Hangover - The inability to start a new books because you're still living in the last book's world.”

— Anonymous

The agency that is so strict on the way Americans keep their books cannot even pass a financial audit.

— Theodore Stevens

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

— Doris Lessing

“Your status has changed. Your Name is changed! You are a new creation.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“This is a book about notable achievements made while dead.”

— Mary Roach

Well, there's nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book.

— Chris Klein

“It was, she said, the way the book had revealed an inherent narcissism in its recipients.”

— Jon Ronson

If you were placing bets on which author would write the tenderest, most moving book about fatherhood, Philip Roth would probably come…

— Ben Dolnick

My husband gets up at around 5.30 A.M., so I'll tuck him in around 9.30 P.M. or 10 P.M., and then I'll…

— Diana Gabaldon

My idea of a night out is actually a night in - in pajamas, with a good book or playing 'Mario Kart.'…

— Ronan Farrow

An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot... It just feels so like the end of a chapter…

— Chet Faker

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading…

— Franz Kafka

Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and…

— William Ellery Channing

Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written.

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female…

— Jane Austen

Well, that's why I really love Diego Della Valle, because he's crazy. Instead of going out to find a top business school…

— Ines de La Fressange

Elephant and Piggie have a very large input. They have a distinct aesthetic taste. They like books that are philosophical. They like…

— Mo Willems

Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake… During…

— William Rathje

I read a blog about this young filmmaker in the Philippines who made a short film, and one of the characters in…

— Miguel Syjuco

I spend a lot of time looking at rococo books. And almanacs used to be huge sellers - they were pretty much…

— Ben Schott

“More recently, books, especially paperbacks, have been printed in massive and inexpensive editions. For the price of a modest meal you can…

— Carl Sagan

Most of the people I talk to are not going to go off and live in a cave. Why should they? So…

— Tenzin Palmo

“The greatest book ever composed was marked at one point unconventional. Also it was marked difficult to read and comprehend, especially in…

— Marcus G Monroe

I have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say.

— Andrew Breitbart

Whatever good works ye send on before [death]... ye shall find with God.

— Elijah Muhammad

In 2011, I earned a Tony nomination for my role in 'The Book of Mormon.'

— Andrew Rannells

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

— Herb Brooks

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

— Roger Ebert

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

— Dave Eggers

“I'm Reginald Clark, I'm afraid of the dark So please do not close this book on me.”

— Shel Silverstein

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

— Mark Millar

“Peacefully and lovingly accepting who we are today requires honestly looking at our past.”

— The Letters Of Gratitude

I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.

— Daniel Tammet

“My past still haunts me when I sleep, although I saw that - much to my surprise- his does as well.”

— Zack Love

As much as we don't want to hear it, book marketing is a huge part of becoming a successful author.

— Heather Hart

That's my anxiety dream. I go to the library and all the books on my subject are out.

— Judy Blume

Author Brene Brown - her books inspire me to "dare greatly".

— Megan Alexander

No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

— Jane Austen

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.

— Isaac Asimov