Book Quotes · Page 157

I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth.

— Garth Greenwell

“It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.”

— Anonymous

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

— Italo Calvino

People say there's a book in everyone but I'm not sure there is. There might be a pamphlet in me.

— Sophie Thompson

There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.

— Noah Hawley

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

— Hilary Mantel

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

— Alison Bechdel

I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.

— Lance Bass

I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping…

— Christopher Bollen

I've learned that I have to be happy with creating discussion and debate and that I shouldn't be trying to write a…

— Miguel Syjuco

We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right…

— Michele Bachmann

You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about…

— Kim Edwards

So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre…

— Mike Myers

Simon Critchley's 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - it's a quick thumbnail sketches of philosophers through the ages.

— David Benioff

Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths…

— Neil Gaiman

With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was…

— Michael Morpurgo

[Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally…

— Don DeLillo

I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells…

— Warren G. Harding

In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it…

— Orhan Pamuk

Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen,…

— William Morris Hunt

It's not about you, it's about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else.…

— Seth Godin

I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people…

— Ann Patchett

You know there's always that kid in your class — and every class has one — the kid who draws all the…

— Pete Docter

My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

— Thomas Hood

Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.

— Leonard Ravenhill

“Believing God isn’t a book, however. It’s not a Bible study either. It’s a lifestyle.”

— Beth Moore

A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.

— Alyson Richman

Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible.

— Thomas Paine

Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.

— L. M. Boyd

Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies.

— John Updike

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.

— Richard Flanagan

I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.

— Allen Ginsberg

“God is the only book that can never be touched, open and seen.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

— Christopher Morley

If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.

— Natalie Goldberg

Any kids out there, don't base your homework on 'Merlin.' Just enjoy it and then read the books.

— Colin Morgan

You don't look up truthiness in a book, you look it up in your gut.

— Stephen Colbert

Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.

— Hector Hugh Munro