Book Quotes · Page 146

Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.

— Ray Bradbury

“Books deliver information so that experience has a chance to exercise creativity.”

— Richard Diaz

I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.

— Maurice Sendak

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live.

— Anupam Kher

When I finished the book [The Dissemblers], I sent it to one billion agents, and got one billion rejections.

— Liza Campbell

Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.

— Rene Descartes

“I'm starting to feel like a character from one of these books”

— Christina Tetreault

Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the…

— Sam Raimi

When I wrote my first book, I was too scared to find out how people got books published. I was convinced that…

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the…

— Joyce Carol Oates

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board…

— Rex Stout

It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to…

— Mike Davidson

I think Ruin and Rising' is the best written of the three and the most structurally sound, but each book means something…

— Leigh Bardugo

If you're going to be a healer, it's not enough to read books and learn allegorical stories. you need to get your…

— Andrew Schneider

'Established' is a good word, much used in garden books, 'the plant, when established' ... Oh, become established quickly, quickly, garden! For…

— Ursula Bethell

OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I associated it (the word 'Hourloupe', as title of his longest series of work he made exclusively from 1962 to 1974, fh)…

— Jean Dubuffet

I do everything from home. I broadcast commentaries for CBS News Radio every day - from home, on a disk that I…

— Charles Grodin

“He'd always had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the cactus country. This was as the…

— Dorothy B. Hughes

I'm always conscious of the fact that a book starts, basically, with a kid in a lap, and a parent reading to…

— Jon J Muth

By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and…

— Julian Huxley

But you want to know about the influence of books on my life, and as I've said, there was only one. Seneca.…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it.

— Diane Setterfield

“Just ’cause a book don’t have a title, don’t mean it don’t have a name.”

— Kami Garcia

I was kind of a weird homie; I was a weird kid. Nobody in my family loved books. I'm the only one.

— Luis J. Rodriguez

Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.

— Thomas Perry

I couldn't believe it when Penguin offered me the chance to publish a book.

— Brooklyn Beckham

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Her eyes like the ideal geography book: maps of pure nightmare. "The Ghost of Edna Lieberman”

— Roberto Bolaño

I have a tell-all book about where I came from, as well as a workout video.

— Michael Sorrentino

“Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I love entering the private world that each writer gives us through their books”

— MBarreto Condado

“Hey Revision. You can be a pain but you do make Book better.”

— Buffy Andrews

Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.

— Ellen Kushner

Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence.

— Richard Baxter

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

— Anonymous

Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.

— Lois Wyse

“What makes a book memorable is the message it etched in the readers’ minds.”

— Tista Ray