Book Quotes · Page 170

“Never judge a book by the cover, you may miss out on what could be your favorite book”

— Sharon Watkins

“Over the years I have come to realize that I write the book I want to read, the one I can't find…

— Ann Patchett

“Sometimes you can't fix everything," said Amina. "Life isn't always like books." "No, it's not.”

— Helen Simonson

“peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, ‘and what is”

— Anonymous

I'm a book nerd, and I've seen authors that I love, I've gone and seen them speak or read from a book.

— Duff McKagan

“Yes. They're bringing in books from all over the world and burning them here.”

— Sōsuke Natsukawa

“But you'll never have your happy ending unless you're brave enough to open the book and start your story.”

— L.B. Simmons

'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come…

— Henry Rollins

When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes,…

— Mother Teresa

I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just…

— Iain Banks

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Brilliant. . . . Marriage Confidential is both laugh-out-loud funny and gasp-out-loud shocking, and nothing less than a Feminine Mystique for our…

— Debby Applegate

I watch comic book movies. Give me 'The Avengers,' give me 'Thor', those are my area. But I don't watch comedies.

— Melissa Marr

But the feeling I have, you know, is that I'll never come close to reading all, or even a thousandth- a billionth-…

— Dave Barry

Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own…

— Stephen King

I write to get myself writing. That and read Wallace Stevens' "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" for the umpteenth time. Certain…

— Dan Chiasson

I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history…

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

I think that in the first place, why we can get excited about [Buckminster ] Fuller, why it's plausible that people might…

— Jonathon Keats

After a certain age our memories are so intertwined with one another that what we are thinking of, the book we are…

— Marcel Proust

“You know that frustrating feeling of losing the page in your book? You didn't want to go too far ahead and spoil…

— Rebecca Raisin

I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if…

— Art Spiegelman

My visions and fantasies are pretty standard. The only difference is I got to do it, while most of us haven't. Beyond…

— David Lee Roth

The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility…

— Jared Diamond

Hollywood loves pre-validation. Even if someone has a property that was first published as a comic book that sold only 5,000 copies,…

— David S. Goyer

“There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about. -- Huck Finn”

— Mark Twain

Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.

— William Butler Yeats

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

— P. D. James

I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.

— Nina Jacobson

The script for 'Trainspotting' was amazing, and it was different from the book.

— Jonny Lee Miller

“Dust accumulated on the book has no power to change its story.”

— Sohil Ashvin Shah

Don't read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student.

— Jim Rohn

“There are no bad books, just a bad time for that book.”

— Meigz

I only read a book if I feel intuitively led to read it.

— Echo Bodine

“All I know is, being away from you…makes it hard to breathe. I miss you so much”

— Samantha Towle

History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.

— Harold S. Kushner

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.

— Douglas Rushkoff

I am a total geek. I'm not even a closet comic book geek. I am the comic book geek.

— Matthew Settle

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

— Anonymous

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

— William Landay

I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.

— Khaled Hosseini