Book Quotes · Page 167

She is the film of a book of the story of the smell of her hair.

— Counting Crows

“A good book should leave you…slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.”

— William Styron

Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

— Orhan Pamuk

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

— Voltaire

To be a true scientist, is to begin reading the book from the end.

— Savannah Yates

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

— Ray Bradbury

Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them.

— Tara Bray Smith

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

— Roald Dahl

Have I got a black book? Yes, it's called a mobile phone. I do get offers. There is no shortage of people…

— Simon Cowell

Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet…

— James T. Farrell

The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty…

— Patti Smith

My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view.…

— Marjane Satrapi

My stuff is direct. Critics have compared my writing style with boxing all the way back to 1978 when my first book…

— Ishmael Reed

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read…

— Alan Kay

It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture…

— Margaret Mahy

Parents who struggle to get a witness of the Savior into the heart of a child will be helped as they seek…

— Henry B. Eyring

We’re really lucky to live in a planet that has so much music. We could be living in some bland planet that…

— John Frusciante

“You can possess a book without really owning it, though. Beyond ownership in a commercial or legal sense, there’s ownership of an…

— Blake Morrison

But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they…

— Leon Wieseltier

Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that…

— Will Self

Everybody has a ‘gripping stranger’ in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe it’s the…

— Douglas Coupland

We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable…

— Daniel Pennac

I recommend anybody go to a bookstore, go down the self-help or new-age section, and just walk those aisles. See what book…

— Tom Araya

“The book is intended to help believing Christians “who today have been made insecure by scientific research and critical discussion, so that…

— Pope Benedict XVI

With the history of us, a book wouldn't necessarily be the best thing.

— Keisha Buchanan

I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.

— Della Reese

“She hasn't had a book to read lately and that feeling of story rushes through her like a swoon.”

— Helen Humphreys

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

— Isaac D'Israeli

I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school.

— Junot Diaz

My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read.

— Emilia Clarke

I may be able to put a good book tape on in the car on the way home and I will have…

— Stuart Pearce

I think in my mum's house, I still have my revision notes from my GCSE anthology book!

— Jax Jones

“We are very fond of books. You can learn nearly everything from them that rabbits can't teach you.”

— Alan Snow

Any book is a Good Book, and wherever they keep the Good Book safe is also the House a the Lord.

— Kami Garcia

I'm writing a book called Stop Overreacting. If you guys don't buy it I'm going to kill myself.

— Nikhil Saluja

I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years!

— Elif Batuman

“Don't die with your wisdom and experiences longing to live forever after you are gone: write a book.”

— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

“The heart aches in brokenness as daylight awakens the pain of knowing.”

— Phindiwe Nkosi

“Whoever said diamonds were a girl's best friend sure hasn't read a good book.”

— Savannah Gostlin

I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book.

— Connie Willis