Book Quotes · Page 173

Any time you have any type of record in any record book, especially with the Lakers, it is pretty special.

— Kyle Kuzma

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

— Anonymous

Following takes why. Transactions take what. It has to be real. It has to be the same for writing a book.

— Simon Sinek

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

— John Steinbeck

Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.

— George Orwell

Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with…

— Thomas Gray

“Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.”

— Jo Linsdell

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

— Edward Abbey

“Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And…

— John Gay

Although I wrote a book about infidelity around the world, I ended up concluding that fidelity is quite a good idea.

— Pamela Druckerman

My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial…

— Fred Saberhagen

In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and…

— Sara Paretsky

Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business.…

— Ronnie Apteker

We didn't have much, but I was raised to believe if you had books, you had a lot. My grandfather and my…

— Christian Scott

As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but…

— Fay Wray

I've never set a book in Europe. I've lived in Europe three times, but somehow or other it wasn't the experience that…

— Christopher Koch

It's the same with this idea of a literate public, and also of a democracy in which people have access to and…

— Robert Hass

“In writing this book, I have come to feel like a kind of immigrant in my own life, inhabiting a world of…

— Zachary Lazar

Now, I saw, upon a time, when he was walking in the fields, that he was, as he was wont, reading in…

— John Bunyan

What was the question? ...Oh. Where do I get my crazy ideas? Answer: sleep-fairy, walk-fairy, shower-fairy. Book-fairy. And in these last few…

— Richard Bach

I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to write a book to…

— Jonah Hill

“If I be just a page torn out of a book, May I sail forever over the oceans blue, Float over the…

— Nancy B. Brewer

Polar' is based on the first and a little bit on the second book and all the characters from those novels are…

— Jonas Akerlund

People ask me when I start one of these projects, what is your theme? I havent the faintest idea. Thats why youre…

— David McCullough

You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.

— Eve Bunting

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

— Dirk Benedict

The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

There is more sexy-stuff a coming in this book, though… This ain't your grandmother's Dirk Gently.

— Arvind Ethan David

We can write the book on how to run a successful write-in campaign for the United States Senate.

— Lisa Murkowski

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

— Jane Smiley

“To friends and books, and friends in books, may our stories be long and our friendships longer.”

— Molly MacRae

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

— Matt Haig

“She reads books like one would breath air to fill up and live.”

— Anonymous

I mean, I'm on a comic book. I'm in a video game. This is not real life.

— Mary Wiseman

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

— Simon Armitage

The summer movies are coming out. My advice: just stay home and burn a good book.

— Stephen Colbert

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

— Charles Bukowski

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am still surprised when I walk into a bookstore and see my name on a book's binder.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I read much more that I do anything else. I don't watch too much television, because I like books.

— Anjelica Huston