Book Quotes · Page 166

“After I read a good book I have a hard time coping with reality.”

— Anonymous

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

— Tracy Letts

Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.

— Marjane Satrapi

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

— Helen Garner

... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.

— Gertrude Atherton

When you see 'editor' on a book, there are many permutations of what that title can mean.

— Nathan Englander

I always have kind of a few books going at the same time.

— Regina Spektor

Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you

— Haruki Murakami

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find…

— Richard Paul Evans

There's a point I set for myself, and it's an arbitrary point, when I think no matter happens, I'm going to finish…

— Joanna Scott

“The greatest tragedy to ever happen to a nation is not the incidences of war or terrorism. It's when more bookshops close…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things…

— Ray Bradbury

If it had anything to do with the PC or networking industry I was on top of it. I bought manuals. I…

— Mark Cuban

We set up a beta site, a test site, with movie, music and book reviews. If you're reading them and you want…

— Jay Chiat

Books are such quiet things - created in silence, read in silence - yet publishing a book has become a very noisy…

— Ellen Potter

I just got my phone back yesterday. My mom had it for two days. I was supposed to read a book and…

— Chloe Grace Moretz

The way that I'm feeling the shift in movie industry is that women are allowed to be part of the development process.…

— Brie Larson

For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

The poems were the only thing I wrote that was not for everyone else. Then my editors at Penguin, who were also…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books.…

— Ray Bradbury

always had the thought I could attract abundance. When I wrote the book Your Erroneous Zones back in the '70s, I absolutely…

— Wayne Dyer

I think overtly political novels - those that never transcend or contest their author's conscious intentions and prejudices - are problematic. This…

— Pankaj Mishra

Changing the world doesn't require much money. Again, think in terms of empowerment and not charity. How much were Gandhi's teachers paid?…

— Tim Ferriss

Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the…

— James Joyce

Each new day is another chapter in the unfolding promise of deliverance and life.

— Elizabeth George

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

— Walter Benjamin

I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.

— Barbara Park

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

— Ronald Blythe

“The Book of the Order lay open on his desk, the pages curling up from a spine stitched to last.”

— Hugh Howey

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.

— Stephen King

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

— Alice James

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

— Edward Gibbon

Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore?

— Mo Rocca

I have an ideas book at home with far more ideas than I will ever be able to write.

— Jennifer Rowe

Evil or manipulative people don't need a book, they just do it anyway.

— Robert Greene

We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.

— Loretta Lynn

A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books.

— John Rhys-Davies

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

— Ronald Reagan

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

— Joseph Addison

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

— Mason Cooley