Book Quotes · Page 177

“Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book.”

— Nicole Fende

The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book

— Holly Lisle

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

— Rachel Kushner

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of…

— Richard Baxter

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

— Albert Einstein

He's just a chapter. Turn the page but don't close the book.

— B

“If a book can save—redeem us from the mediocrity of the mundane—surely, there must be a God.”

— Chila Woychik

“A great book feeds our soul and nourishes our spirit in a way nothing else can.”

— C. S. Lakin

I began by doing book reviews on the typewriter and then went over to short stories on the machine, meanwhile sticking to…

— Conrad Aiken

Why not dream your own wonderful sequels? When you have finished a book, it can go on in your mind, the characters…

— Marguerite Henry

I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it's success bias over and over again.

— Ben Horowitz

I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty…

— Chad Harbach

I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We…

— Dolly Parton

You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift, not…

— Robertson Davies

I've always liked reading books that contain funny lines or situations, and maybe because my work is known chiefly for its violence…

— Donald Ray Pollock

Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father.

— David Platt

Once I found out that I was playing 'Deathlok,' I unearthed my old comic book collection. I was going home for Christmas,…

— J. August Richards

“You don’t even know me,” I said. I grabbed the book from the center console. “How about I call you when I…

— John Green

If 'The Wild One' were filmed today, Marlon Brando and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would all have to wear helmets. I…

— Danny Lyon

The internet can be enormously helpful, just like books can, but I don't think it's the be all and end all for…

— Tenzin Palmo

A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty is a beautifully written portrait of Eudora Welty and her amazing life. Carolyn J.…

— William R. Ferris

“... my aim in writing The Watch That Ends the Night was not to present history. My aim was to present humanity.…

— Allan Wolf

What seems beautiful to me, what I should like to write, is a book about nothing, a book dependent on nothing external,…

— Gustave Flaubert

That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly…

— Anthony Holden

Every girl should have this-the little black book for career success!

— Susan Cohn Rockefeller

“If a book is made up of things that are hard to believe, then we were like something out of a book.”

— Brock Clarke

“There is much to discover that's not on the back cover!”

— Anonymous

'Allegiance' is pretty much a book musical. You know, people talk and then they burst out into song.

— Lea Salonga

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”

— Ezra Pound

Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.

— Laurie Notaro

I used to do calligraphy, and I'm afraid that has lapsed, but I've always been interested in book printing.

— Alice Waters

Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.

— David McCullough

I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.

— Alan Dershowitz

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

— Anonymous

A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity. —THOMAS CARLYLE,”

— Anonymous

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

— Simone de Beauvoir

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

— Agatha Christie

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

— Henry Ward Beecher

If you plan to read one book this year I encourage you to consider, Find Your Reason to Be Here.

— Jed Diamond