Book Quotes · Page 171

It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears?

— Anonymous

Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month Club.

— Melvin Belli

After you've lived with somebody for 11 years, what's a guy in a robe reading from a book going to change?

— Danny DeVito

Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.

— Don DeLillo

To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.

— Robert Breault

My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water.

— Mark Twain

I was never a kind of superhero fan much growing up, I'm not a kind of comic book kid.

— Joe Wright

“Buy this book and make me rich within my wildest dreams.”

— David Misch

“It’s like you’re a book I’ve read a thousand time without ever picking up. Your prose that effortlessly falls off my tongue…

— Sarah Noffke

I'm very English really. I even ordered a book on the internet, 'how to have absolutely nothing to do with your neighbors'.…

— Milton Jones

'Await Your Reply' by Dan Chaon. I've always been obsessed with the idea of disappearing and becoming someone else. Even if you…

— Lisa Lutz

A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this…

— Ashwin Sanghi

“We find little in a book but what we put there,’ Joseph Joubert said. ‘But in great books, the mind finds room…

— A.C. Grayling

You should not really entertaining anyone else, but trying to be yourself, because there are already more good books than you or…

— Jonathan Dee

“Stories are life," protested Pico. "Without them, books would be only paper and ink, with them they breathe, the reader is drawn…

— Keith Miller

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read…

— Philip Pullman

I loved rain for making home seem home more deeply, and I suspect that is why, from as far back as I…

— Frederick Buechner

That small word "Force," they make a barber's block, Ready to put on Meanings most strange and various, fit to shock Pupils…

— James Clerk Maxwell

“I went to the library. I looked at the magazines, at the pictures in them. One day I went to the bookshelves,…

— John Fante

To the children who loved Harry Potter, I want to say your enthusiasm was the real magic. I so enjoyed being on…

— Daniel Radcliffe

Amis is acutely, vibrantly sensitive to the different registers of laughter. He knows that it can be the most affirming and uniquely…

— Martin Amis

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a…

— Terry Eagleton

I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes,…

— Heidi Klum

It became a question of taste. I have a certain taste in art history. And that - I had a huge library…

— Kehinde Wiley

If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.

— Margaret Drabble

“To write a book is to suspend the present and create a new reality.”

— Susan Dudics-Dean aka Suzanne Quill

If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.

— Anonymous

There's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase

— Sergei Dovlatov

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good…

— Jayce O'Neal

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.

— Mark Rylance

Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

— William Godwin

I would say [I love] writing, because lately I've been finishing my book.

— Lily Collins

Books have been thought of as windows to another world of imagination

— Anonymous

I never worked directly in book publishing, but New York media is adjacent.

— Cord Jefferson

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

— Taslima Nasrin

The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.

— George Orwell

I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

— Anonymous

If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

— will.i.am