Book Quotes · Page 160

Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.

— Alberto Manguel

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

— Anonymous

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

— Manuel Puig

Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.

— Bruce Feiler

If it weren't for the law, I would steal books; if it weren't for my purse, I would buy them.

— Harold Laski

“BOOK FOURTH.—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER”

— Victor Hugo

“Why would a guy spend five years writing a book when he can buy one for ten bucks?”

— Richard Johnson

I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers.

— Kami Garcia

Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built…

— Buenaventura Durruti

“This book is dedicated to those who have died as a result of mind control and/or ritual abuse, and those who have…

— Alison Miller

Most of you didn't think that helping people share books would be a subversive act...Yet the fact is that you have chosen…

— Naomi Klein

I love giving people advice on what to do with their books, but I don't really know how a Kindle Single gets…

— Sloane Crosley

What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with…

— China Mieville

When I was writing Shadow and Bone,' I really had no confidence as a writer. I had never finished a book before…

— Leigh Bardugo

“I've reached that final moment of editing a book—the one where the text manifests as a living breathing person and starts slugging…

— Richard Due

I used to go to the library all the time when I was kid. As a teenager, I got a book on…

— Drew Carey

Whenever I visit Korea she [Kang] buys me lunch and takes me to a gallery. As if all this wasn't enough, she…

— Deborah Smith

I can write any kind of novel I want, any time, and sell it, but there's not that many people watching it.…

— George Pelecanos

She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug…

— Alice Munro

I only choose to write about people who are alive, are extremely powerful and as such have influenced our lives. I try…

— Kitty Kelley

Boswell: But, Sir is it not somewhat singular that you should happen to have Cocker's Arithmetic about you on your journey? Dr.…

— James Boswell

You can't just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You…

— Mary Wells Lawrence

We are told by media - books, television, reality shows - that heartbreak is this terrible thing and yet we should seek…

— Sandra Cisneros

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs,…

— Umberto Eco

One Good Book Is Equal To, Hundred Good Friend's But One Good Friend Is Equal To A Liabary.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

— Greg Louganis

Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.

— R. L. Stine

The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.

— Ray Bradbury

Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.

— Dan Brown

These are my wakeup cupcakes, some anti-depressants and a cellphone book.

— Courtney Love

“g sees himself as an independent reader: he buys all of the books on the literary prize lists.”

— Joanna Walsh

I'm writing a new book right now that is like an erotica manifesto.

— Susie Bright

“When you convert a good book to a film. stupid things happen”

— Jesse Andrews

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. It's just because I don't have much time.

— Francisco Costa

I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.

— Dean Koontz

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Interviews don't go to the core of my life. Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

— Michael Moriarty

But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.

— Julian Barnes

All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.

— Mary Roach

There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.

— Bernard Malamud