Book Quotes · Page 151

Success is walking out of here with the title, and anything less is not good enough in my book.

— Pete Sampras

“Turn the page, your heroine is still there, breathe, relax, life is beautiful: you're in a book!”

— Gabrielle Dubois

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.

— Joseph Dalton Hooker

I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.

— Caroline Wozniacki

That explains how I got the name Conchata. It was the name of an Apache squaw in the book mother was reading.

— Conchata Ferrell

I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

— Pat Conroy

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I led a sheltered life. I didn't know how to book a flight.

— Paul Young

The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the…

— John McGahern

“I see you have books under your arm, brother. It is indeed a rare pleasure these days to come across somebody that…

— Anthony Burgess

“While the goal of a book is to create a positive emotional experience for the reader, the goal of the opening is…

— Darynda Jones

I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a…

— Laura Hillenbrand

The book Relentless' is an awesome book. It taught me a lot about just staying consistent, being level-headed, being relentless at what…

— Mohamed Sanu

My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want…

— Amy Tan

One of the things I've tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I'm able to…

— Lauren Oliver

I read a lot, that's my main hobby. I've got an iPad which I store books on and I read voraciously. I'm…

— Anthony Hopkins

“Bookstores attract the right kind of folk. Good people like A.J. and Amelia. And I like talking about books with people who…

— Gabrielle Zevin

Emery cut in impatiantly, "For crying out loud. Who do you think you are, Nancy Drew?" Hey," I snapped, because no one…

— Rosemary Clement-Moore

I go to a library. There are lakhs of books; all of them are very valuable and highly informative. Now what should…

— T Joseph Benziger

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is…

— Emily Dickinson

Part of the shabbiness of our culture, if indeed it is shabby, is that it doesn't seem to prepare people. With all…

— Leonard Cohen

Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct…

— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

Actually, screenplays were much more detailed than what I did in the book In the book I had to invent a style…

— Paul Auster

You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or…

— Owen Wilson

“The book of Nature had waited more than a millennium for a reader.”

— Carl Sagan

Never judge a book by its cover, just because you read it before doesn't mean it hasn't been rewritten.

— Anonymous

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

— Toby Jones

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

— Bill James

I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

— Virginia Woolf

“Of course you can judge a book by its cover; moreover, we are obliged to.”

— Simon Garfield

What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?

— Ray Bradbury

He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.

— Tom Perrotta

I worked on my book for about seven years and I had no idea it would be so timely when it was…

— T. J. Stiles

I still feel it's kind of weird to say, 'I'm a comic book writer.'

— Tom King

Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.

— James Ellis

I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book.

— Evangeline Lilly

Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.

— Martial

I've had great writing teachers and mentors and great success with my first book.

— Uzodinma Iweala