Book Quotes · Page 164

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

— Benjamin Franklin

I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.

— Gail Sheehy

I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.

— Mark Foley

As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.

— Annie Leibovitz

[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.

— Rosellen Brown

I spend a lot of time reading. Also, I pen down my thoughts and perceptions about books I read.

— Mayank Agarwal

“I thank everybody in this book for coming. -A.W., AUTHOR AND MEDIUM”

— Alice Walker

“Take a deep breath, open your eyes, and close the book.”

— Gabriel Bá

A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed…

— Susan Hill

“Remember where you're standing when the spotlight goes off," Lovell warned me once, when our book was a best-seller and the movie…

— Jeffrey Kluger

I hate reading digital books. I don't enjoy the experience. I like smelling the paper, turning the pages. I think the book…

— Paul Auster

“Like I said, I’d slam that book with a one-star rating and return it! Except Jeff Bezos won’t let you return your…

— Camilla Monk

I think 'The Lord of the Rings' holds perhaps a deeper place in people's hearts than 'The Hobbit' the book does.

— Elijah Wood

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in…

— Anonymous

I think the two jobs I dreamed of doing as a teenager were comic book artist and record cover illustrator. Maybe film…

— Dave McKean

In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic…

— Richard Whately

It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values - the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell…

— John Updike

I don't understand the feeling of, the way people speak of writing as though it were, like, some kind of djinn to…

— Matt Fraction

when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books…

— Anne Fadiman

I never really set out to research any of these stories. I try to lead an interesting life though. I guess the…

— Arthur Bradford

One day I gave Clifford a bath. And I combed his hair and took hom to the dog show. I'd like to…

— Anonymous

After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things…

— Edward Hirsch

North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms has signed a deal with Random House to write his memoirs. Scholars will no doubt benefit from…

— Paul Begala

When someones part in your story is over, turn the page. Don't try to stretch the chapter into a book.

— Ritu Ghatourey

You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.

— Anonymous

I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books.

— Jamie Campbell Bower

It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.

— Neil Jordan

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

— Robert Frost

A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.

— William Gibson

I spend a huge amount of time writing about the book instead of writing the actual text.

— Chris Pavone

Setting is a major aspect in writing all of my books, both in terms of natural and cultural environments.

— Nicholas Sparks

With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block.

— James Rollins

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

— Jules Renard

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

— Jane Austen

This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Confidence can be learned - but not from a book. Confidence comes from from living.”

— Saskia Shakin

“He made me promise not to show you this book until you’d decided to be the Mockingjay on your own.”

— Suzanne Collins

He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going.

— J. K. Rowling

“The World is a book and those who do not travel read only a page' St. Augustine of Hippo”

— Monica Joseph