Book Quotes · Page 172

Please don't slap me, I'm a red blooded male and the book said I could not fail.

— Genesis

I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.

— Stephen Hawking

“Far be it from me to keep a woman from her book. That could become dangerous.”

— Elizabeth Hunter

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

— Jeffery Deaver

I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.

— Kevin Brockmeier

There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.

— Hanna Rosin

You can't tell a doper well under control from a vegetarian book-keeper.

— Raymond Chandler

A book is a silent teacher, and a precious and indispensable companion in life.

— Vikrant Parsai

I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather,…

— Michel Odent

“You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of…

— Zelda Fitzgerald

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than…

— Stephen King

Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?

— Anonymous

There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

One day at my grandmother's house, I discovered 'The Secret Garden' and read it. This was the first book I found entirely…

— Cynthia Voigt

I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise.…

— David S. Goyer

Comic books sort of follow with the move - if people see the movie and if they're interested in the character and…

— Stan Lee

It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step. One small step and…

— Regina Brett

If I was writing a lifestyle book it would have the same advice on every page, and you’d know it all already.…

— Ben Goldacre

To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man…

— Francis Bacon

Regular reading of and talking about the Book of Mormon invite the power to resist temptation and to produce feelings of love…

— David A. Bednar

We can glimpse it in the book of Acts: the method of the kingdom will match the message of the kingdom. The…

— Anonymous

I was brought up in a home where I saw my parents read and I was taken to bookshops and libraries, so…

— Michael Scott

When we were children, letters were like fun toys. We played with them through our building blocks. We colored them in books.…

— Ji Lee

I don't do a lot of foisting, because when it comes to books I don't really like to be foisted upon.

— Michael Chabon

I have a short attention span, so when one book isn't working out, I just work on another.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Susan hated Literature. She’d much prefer to read a good book.”

— Terry Pratchett

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

— Ezra Pound

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

— Max Hastings

Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

— Mason Cooley

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

— Helen Dunmore

“Inside a book, she captures all that's lost. She journals so her words won't fly away.”

— Stephanie Hemphill

Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

— Chinua Achebe

Life has many different chapters for us...one bad chapter doesn't mean it's the end of the book

— Mercy Pheona

I haven't said this yet, and I think I will say it. I stand by every word in the Hillary book to…

— Edward Klein

“I want to write a book like a cloud that changes as it goes.”

— Ronald Sukenick

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf

I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it.

— John Lanchester