Book Quotes · Page 156

An actor must read a lot. Books not only make one a good actor but also a better human being.

— Pankaj Tripathi

“Don't cry while you are reading the book wait until you are done reading it.”

— Alice Hoffman

When you think of comic book readers, you never think of the brown girl, and I was that.

— Iman Vellani

A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.

— Edward Fitzgerald

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

— Shirley Knight

No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.

— Stewart O'Nan

“i love this book it is the best of both world love romance”

— Yuu Watase

I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.

— R. L. Stine

Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.

— Ian Mcewan

I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the…

— Gunter Grass

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about…

— Will Schwalbe

You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may…

— Jamie Dimon

I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has…

— Aleksandar Hemon

[Lincoln in the Bardo] is not a long book. And that meant I could obsess over it and live in it both…

— George Saunders

The Bible defines almost nothing because it isn't a book for scholars and philosophers or free thinkers. It's a book for people…

— Dallas Willard

When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was…

— Frank Herbert

When you want to be a writer, you think that actually getting published will make you feel somehow more real to yourself.…

— Hanya Yanagihara

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.…

— Tahereh Mafi

The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code,…

— Philip Schaff

Harry - you're a great wizard, you know." "I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go…

— Anonymous

The books remind us that way down deep in our hearts, part of us knows that we are creatures of light and…

— Richard Bach

Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that,…

— Christo

I did 'Ant-Man' and 'The Mandalorian.' They came out back to back and then I didn't book anything for months.

— Katy O'Brian

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

— David Mitchell

A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin

— Charlotte Rampling

Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.

— Jacqueline Kelly

My mother and father stressed education and always made sure we had a place to study and books to read.

— Len Elmore

I'm a horribly chronic 'get half way through the book and start a new one' person.

— Caroline Polachek

“This book is for you, the reader. Without you, this book wouldn't be possible. None of this would be.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

— Erica Jong

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.

— Janice Dickinson

More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.

— M.J. Rose

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

— Aldous Huxley

“someone has mixed and shuffled the words of the Book more than was right.”

— Umberto Eco

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

— Haruki Murakami

The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed;

— David Gelernter

The dark night was the first book of poetry and the constellations were the poems.

— Chet Raymo

The books I've written the fastest were the best reviewed and sold the best.

— Michael Connelly