Book Quotes · Page 155

“Everything we encounter can have a positive influence in shaping our life when we adopt a lens of Gratitude.”

— The Letters Of Gratitude

I worked at a Books-a-Million in Louisville for several years.

— Julie Kagawa

My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story,

— Carl Hiaasen

I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant.

— Thom Yorke

I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike

— Ann M. Martin

“All books are butterflies, having once lived the life of a caterpillar.”

— Suzanne Brandyn

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.

— Patrick Ness

“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close…

— Shannon L. Alder

If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not…

— Samuel Johnson

A great book seeks to explain causality, not correlation. It works to point out the circumstances in which it works, and where…

— Anonymous

I'm passionate about fantasy movies. I'm passionate about comic book movies. I'm passionate about superheroes. And movies about vengeance. And all of…

— Josh Keaton

When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something,…

— Markus Zusak

Well, we have nothing to hide. Our history is an open book. They may find what they are looking for, but the…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“What a place for him who intends to pass an examination, to write a book, or who wants the crumples got by…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were,…

— Aleksandar Hemon

I literally wrote a book on it called Your Roadmap For Success. And in it I said success is three things: knowing…

— John C. Maxwell

I'm not the creative one. I know that. If Rory Storm hadn't come along... and then The Beatles... I would have continued…

— Ringo Starr

Series finales have that responsibility to leave you feeling good about entire series. You want to feel like the viewer closes the…

— Shawn Ryan

Nothing is a matter of age. It's really in the person because you can publish book after book after book and still…

— Lynne Tillman

In the early 21st century, it is easy to condemn the Bond books for being racist and imperialist, sexist and misogynist, elitist…

— David Cannadine

The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their…

— Edgar Allan Poe

People have one of two extreme reactions to my book. They either throw it across the room, or they rush out and…

— Louise Hay

“For 99 percent of the tenure of humans on earth, nobody could read or write. The great invention had not yet been…

— Carl Sagan

“Any book without a mistake in it has had too much money spent on it.”

— William Collins

Not everybody can do the comic book adaptation thing and make it believable. It is challenging.

— Wesley Snipes

“This book is a story, and like all stories, it should be taken with a grain of salt.”

— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

“The erotic pleasure was starting to take on a life of its own for all three”

— Bat Maxwell

Most people remember the ending of the book more than the beginning and the middle.

— Bernard Hopkins

“If you need to force yourself to put a book down to breathe, you know it's a good one ;)”

— H.A. Kotys

I read the books, get some, Listen to others, get little but what i get the most is to sit and think.

— Khem Veasna

When I was in school, shop class was where the kids that weren't good in anything to do with books went.

— Jamie Hyneman

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.

— Anthony Burgess

I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms.

— Lisa Whelchel

The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

— Roland Barthes

Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books.

— Charlotte Mason

We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

— Tamora Pierce

Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own.

— Holly Smale

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

— Vera Nazarian

I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.

— Karin Slaughter