Book Quotes · Page 152

Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.

— Terry Goodkind

It's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places.

— Joan Didion

“Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out!”

— Carmen DeSousa

“Give my book The Sixties Girl a read. You'll love it. You'll laugh, cry and find yoursel wanting more.”

— Victoria Staat

Some books makes me want to go adventuring, others make me feel that they have saved me the trouble.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.

— Jackie French

“A book is tremendously important. Nobody ever paid for the price of a book, they only paid for the printing”

— Anonymous

Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.

— Brent Runyon

At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly -…

— Patrick deWitt

I mean, you still can't jump offstage and go read a book. But I'm getting better at it. It is something you…

— Andrew Bird

When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream…

— Carolyn Wells

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such…

— Benjamin Disraeli

One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor.…

— Tom Robbins

And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin,…

— William Cowper

I'd go somewhere where no one spoke. I would take a stack of books up to my hips, and I'd read nonstop.…

— Linda Hamilton

I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they’ve made me feel like…

— Gary Shteyngart

Whether you struggle to remember a client's name, aspire to learn a new language, or are a student battling to prepare for…

— Daniel T. Willingham

A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree…

— Elizabeth Neel

There was something in the pages of these books that had the power to make him feel better about things, a life…

— Justin Cronin

I like making books but I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing. Perhaps I just try to arrange a bunch of seemingly…

— David Shrigley

People have filled an enormously important role in my life - more than books! For me, it's not the formal advising or…

— Henri Nouwen

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But…

— David Brin

You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories…

— Haruki Murakami

“All my books are weird love stories. I love weird love stories.”

— Haruki Murakami

Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.

— William Shakespeare

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

— Bertrand Russell

“A responsible woman sees and accepts only the best in a given situation.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

I like the idea that when a guy comes over to the house, I get to say I wrote the book.

— Greg Behrendt

The rhema is regarded as a more immediate word from God which we do not find in the 66 books of the Bible.

— C. Wagner

I believe in books. I believe more in 'cross-media' - how characters are adapting across mediums.

— Bing Gordon

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

— Jean M. Auel

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

— Judy Blume

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

— Gillian Cross

Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.

— Mark Z. Danielewski

“John Bogle wrote the best “business” (LIFE!) book I’ve read in years. The (BRILLIANT!) title: Enough.”

— Tom Peters

If 'Emotions in Motion' comes out right, I can write the book on the formula rock star.

— Billy Squier

“Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state.”

— Matt Haig

In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I never really know the title of a book until it's finished.

— Mary Wesley