Book Quotes · Page 145

Writing the book was quite therapeutic at times. It's emotional, it's up and down.

— Paul Mullin

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times

— Rosemary Wells

You cant finish the book if you keep reading the same chapter.

— Anonymous

Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing.

— Jon McGregor

There are 3 or 4 important things in life: Books, Friends, Women…and Messi

— Antonio Lobo Antunes

“I write because I have a meaningful message to deliver, not a book to sell.”

— Ramona Matta

When I read the books, I imagined that the family of Ron Weasley was my family.

— Rupert Grint

I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

'John Henry Days' was already half in the can before my first book came out, so I'd already started something that was…

— Colson Whitehead

I get really excited if I think I'm going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven't found before and I think…

— Monica Ali

I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the…

— Burt Ward

“You have to read a book at the right time for you, and I am sure this cannot be insisted on too…

— Doris Lessing

Remember, despite the fact that this book is being sold as a 'fantasy' novel, you must take all of the things it…

— Brandon Sanderson

I will say that comic books are not the easiest things to translate to film, number one. Even the most well meaning…

— Mark Hamill

“Only a reader can understand how a book with 100 pages can be too long and one with 1000 pages can be too short.”

— Sofija

A year after I'd graduated college, I went to a weeklong conference intensive in Boston, and that's when things kicked into high…

— Brian Hodge

Writing is such a strangely and radically private act, and yet its purpose is this great sense of connection and community. I…

— Cheryl Strayed

“The book that simply demands to be read, for no good reason, is asking us to change our lives by putting aside…

— Alan Jacobs

One question is: Who is the working class today, and how has it changed? Where are we in that? I don't have…

— Bill Ayers

I've carried on, in that same tradition, with my kids. Aside from just his brilliance, in my estimation, I think he had…

— Christopher Meledandri

One of the revelations in that book [Lincoln in the Bardo] for me was this idea about citizenship. Even that word -…

— George Saunders

A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having…

— Paul Theroux

The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls…

— Anonymous

“Al-Qur'an is not a book of S C I E N C E but a book of S I G N S”

— Anonymous

“There is enough knowledge in the books to explain the existing, your knowledge must inspire what is possible.”

— Amit Kalantri

I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head...

— Laurie R. King

I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.

— Janet Evanovich

My favourite book in the world is 'Neuromancer' by William Gibson.

— Watkin Tudor Jones

I've tried to use my love of music, and spoken word performance to create companion pieces for the book.

— Rich Ferguson

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

— Beatrice Sparks

The whole process of getting a book published is just part of the process. The last of the process that I enjo

— Victoria Chang

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.

— Darren Aronofsky

I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.

— John Gimlette

People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.

— Gordon Bell

She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

— Liam Gallagher

We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.

— Joseph Epstein

I don't think kids of color should have to search far and wide to find books that reflect their experience.

— Jenny Han

I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.

— W. Somerset Maugham