Book Quotes · Page 153

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

— Andy Rooney

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

— Horace

I've read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women.

— Hill Harper

But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.

— Alison Bechdel

Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?

— Donald Miller

“A writer or an author must always be the no.1 fan of his/her book.”

— Aditi Dufare

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

— Anthony Horowitz

I think when you first start out, you're writing books that are about your immediate place.

— Jami Attenberg

“If you can't write a book, write a chapter. If you can't do that, write a page, a sentence or a word.…

— Tarun Betala

I take time with each person and try to remember them, especially if they're a repeater from another event. I know a…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Our vision is every book ever printed in any language [fetched and viewable on our eBook Kindle device] in under 60 seconds.

— Jeff Bezos

Forty-years-old these days is the beginning of people's lives. I've found myself, I'm confident, I'm mature, I've been through some stuff, I'm…

— Nicole Ari Parker

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is…

— Bell Hooks

You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women…

— Aisha Tyler

The ideas get under your skin. I am honored and deeply excited by the thought that the next generation of writers, or…

— Robert Greene

The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a…

— Jonathan Lethem

I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I guess that's my favorite…

— Meghan Trainor

I began writing books after speaking for several years and I realize that when you have a written book people think that…

— Brian Tracy

That seems to be crossing some kind of line," I say. :So anything goes?" They both stare at me- Beetee with doubt,…

— Suzanne Collins

My mother is old-fashioned; she raised us like girls from a 19th-century book. My sisters and I are known for being the…

— Lou Doillon

My first book came out again - the re-issue from 2001. I was rereading it to make sure that I didn't miss…

— Peter Orner

It's not a matter of whether the reviews of your books are good or bad, it's about being taken seriously, both as…

— Edwidge Danticat

It is June. This is what I have decided to do with my life just now. I will do this work and…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

There's a generation of people that do fetishize books and do fetishize catalogues and do look at them as something important. The…

— Jim Walrod

Donald Trump has defied practically every playbook or blue book technique in dispatching an opponent.

— Rush Limbaugh

If my life has got a book, I will write a word 'Super Junior' the biggest in it.

— Eunhyuk

“Listen to those characters in your head...sit down and just write a good book.”

— Timothy Pina

Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.

— Akhil Sharma

The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.

— Azar Nafisi

We read the world - television, movies, songs, books - and the people in it through the lens of our own lives.

— Jill Talbot

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

— Aldous Huxley

“The more a person pushes others away, the clearer it becomes he is in need of love the most.”

— Renee Ahdieh

“What is coming is better than what is gone - Suddenly Dirty Book 1 The Dirty Texas Series.”

— JA Low

I'm writing a book on anger management. ALL OF YOU ARE GOING TO BUY IT OR ELSE!

— Nikhil Saluja

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.

— Stefan Zweig

I met Barack Obama, I read his book, I like him a great deal. I disagree with him on very fundamental issues.

— Mark McKinnon

Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!

— Keegan Allen

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

— Monica Ali

There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom.

— Herbert Hoover

I like in books when we start the book and you really don't know how it's going to turn out.

— Cassandra Clare