Book Quotes · Page 154

“An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in book

— Anonymous

I heard that Trump said even smelling a book makes him feel tired.

— Wim Wenders

I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods.

— Rocco DiSpirito

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

— John Ruskin

I read a lot of books; I am a lazy person when I don't work!

— Catherine Tresa

I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.

— Judy Blume

To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.

— Spyridon Marinatos

I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while…

— Charles Bukowski

Reading a book about management isnt going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make…

— Drew Houston

I wish you could read people's feelings as easily as you can read a book. then you know whether your wasting your…

— Sarah Moores

“I am quite happy for people to disagree with me on a book. If I say it is a 5 star read…

— Michael Edwards

America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping…

— Bill Bryson

There's so many good books, but I'm always like, "I'm sorry, I have five more Faulkners to read, I can't be bothered."…

— Lou Doillon

Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much…

— Corbin Bleu

I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating.

— Louise Brown

“she sees her life pass before her in rapid succession, like clouds, different shapes and different colors, merging, passing into one another,…

— Edna O'Brien

If readers like The Thorn and the Blossom, which I would call literary fantasy, I think they would like books such as…

— Theodora Goss

For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they…

— John Roberts

A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more…

— Donna Jo Napoli

That's exactly how I want you to feel. When you finish this book, I want you to be filled with curiosity. I…

— Clare B. Dunkle

I think we think that American books are funny or they're serious literature. But humor is subversive. When you add an element…

— Idra Novey

I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book,…

— Ray Bradbury

One of the nice things about books as opposed to television and movies to some extent is it's not a passive entertainment.…

— James Patterson

Because of what I do, it has to be an open book, but right now this is a book that is being…

— Kevin Hart

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

— Heinrich Heine

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

— V. S. Naipaul

Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.

— Robert Benton

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.

— V. S. Naipaul

I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person.

— Hope Solo

The fastest I've ever done a book is a 112,000-word book in about a month.

— Mercedes Lackey

“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves.”

— Gilbert Highet

When I was younger, I was full of smart things to say about all my books.

— Richard Flanagan

“Who needs a stupid grampa-loving, book-reading, good-smelling boy who I like to talk to?”

— Cecil Castellucci

Books are peculiar. When you write one, you also have to find things that make headlines.

— Luca Toni

I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!

— Agnes Varda

When I sit and read my book and I'm all cosy, it takes me to another place.

— Georgia Toffolo

“I'm writing a new book called 'Ventroliquism for Dummies'.”

— Ron Moore

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

— Frederik Pohl

I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.

— Elmore Leonard