Book Quotes · Page 169

Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.

— Jeannette Walls

“Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.”

— Aman Jassal

I didnt want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.

— David Liss

“I read the book again that night because I knew that if I didn't, I would probably start crying again.”

— Stephen Chbosky

Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer.

— J. K. Rowling

I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"

— Carl Reiner

I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.

— Michel de Montaigne

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

— Lois Lowry

I like making records right now 'cause I can express myself that way in a very immediate, physical sense. You can always…

— Patti Smith

I believe my friends think I'm funny. All the books are full of humor. Maybe it is a quiet sort of humor…

— Jesse Ball

Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the…

— Paulo Coelho

The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and…

— Russell Lynes

Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction…

— Stacy Schiff

I have had several offers to make the book into a film. I don't know if the message could be accurately transmitted,…

— Frederick Lenz

I'm a huge fan of the series of books by Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments. I'm a fan myself, so to be…

— Lily Collins

I've read Reverend Kirk, in fact. My uncle's library has quite a few books of your people. I have read Mr. Lang's…

— Melissa Marr

Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers…

— Marcel Proust

That’s why you have to write your book right now, if that’s what you want to do. If you wait until you…

— Stephen Elliott

“Reading a book about something can be an obstacle to doing it because it gives you the impression that you are doing…

— Peter Kreeft

This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there.…

— Diana Wynne Jones

My parents would frisk me before family events, and find the book, and lock it in the car. And then be disappointed…

— Neil Gaiman

I don't want to write things that people don't want to read. I would have no pleasure in producing something that sold…

— Emily Rodda

His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I…

— Romain Rolland

I'm not the hugest comic book person, but I do love superheroes.

— Pete Holmes

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

— John Green

“At times, quotes from the books talk more about our lives than on the lives of the characters.”

— John Green

I actually think that 'Bandbox,' by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.

— Thomas Mallon

They say never judge a book by its cover but they also said a picture is worth a thousand words.

— Jaz

I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book of Mormon.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.

— Anthony Browne

Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good…

— Moby

Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.

— Jeremy Taylor

“A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape. Even when you're the one writing it.”

— Julie Wright

“Yesterday is the history chapter in the book of life, isn't it time you turned the page?”

— Rob Liano

These women living like they tryna write a book after. But I'm just trying to keep it G for my chapter.

— Drake

“The book has gone out into the world and the world has remade it.”

— Salman Rushdie

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable...

— Louis Aragon

“Yes, I love books.” He joined her at the bookshelves. “They are a whole other world.”

— Jennifer Malone Wright

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines

— Christian Lacroix