Book Quotes · Page 174

I was a political journalist for a long time. I wrote a book about Putin. I made all kinds of trouble.

— Masha Gessen

My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral

— Ulysses S. Grant

It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory.

— Terry Pratchett

I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.

— Karin Slaughter

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.

— Richard de Bury

A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it...

— Nora Ephron

“Is there a purpose to this visit, or may I return to my book?”

— Sarah J. Maas

I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.

— John Green

...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of…

— Louisa May Alcott

That's such a great book [Bloods]. That's a perfect way to articulate this thing that we're talking about. Just because someone is…

— Paul Beatty

My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the…

— Stacy Schiff

Most people don't walk around the tools to process pain and fear, that kind of discomfort. In most cases, it's unbearable to…

— Gabrielle Bernstein

Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Learn how to cook. Read books that will educate you. Get an education. Get a career. And support yourself. And live in…

— Chris Rock

“Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human…

— Christopher Morley

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think that most of the action in religion is around the home, is in families, and is in individual lives, and…

— Bruce Feiler

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of the writer. This is…

— John Steinbeck

People meet writers and are bowled over when the writer is friendly to them and invites them to his house for a…

— Garrison Keillor

I try to find a style that matches the book. In the Baroque Cycle, I got infected with the prose style of…

— Neal Stephenson

Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing…

— Ramakrishna

When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it…

— Jonathan Dee

As a very small boy, my passion was nature, and I had pets - cats, a dog and a bunny rabbit -…

— Tony Buzan

No nation is better than its sacred book. In that book are expressed its highest ideals of life, and no nation rises…

— David Josiah Brewer

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

— Stephen Fry

For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

— Gabrielle Zevin

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

— John Updike

I would rather preach one sermon than write a thousand books.

— Vavasor Powell

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

— William H. Gass

My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type.

— Michelle Rodriguez

If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.

— A.M. Homes

“What is it with you and that book?" Rafael laughed. "We have a personal relationship.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.

— Salman Rushdie

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

— Anonymous

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you,” answered Julián.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Buying a book you've never read is like buying a dress you've never tried on”

— Helene Hanff

If I didn't have my little schedule book, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

— Robert Osborne

“If u only read the books that everyone's reading, you can think what everyone else is thinking.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Grace will always make the difference Book Only by grace”

— Solomon Teddy Osei

I called the book 'The Senator Next Door,' not 'The President Next Door.'

— Amy Klobuchar