Book Quotes · Page 182

I was going to write a book one day and I actually did. To have it is a major accomplishment for me.

— DJ Khaled

It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

— William James

The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.

— Kristin Hannah

The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

— Neil Simon

Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

— Miguel de Cervantes

[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

— Lawrence M. Krauss

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

— Azar Nafisi

It takes me forever to read a book. I have such a small attention span.

— Lewis Hamilton

Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a…

— John McPhee

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking…

— Brian Selznick

'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was…

— James Dobson

We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but…

— Michel Foucault

Reading ... changes you. You aren't the same person after you've read a particular book as you were before, and you will…

— Margaret Atwood

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the…

— Abraham Lincoln

It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.

— Eric Hobsbawm

There are some books in which every poem is a facet of the same thing. So the book is like a piece…

— Joan Larkin

Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the…

— Carol Muske-Dukes

God hath given to mankind a common library, His creatures; to every man a proper book, himself being an abridgment of all…

— Francis Quarles

The reality of truth is not to be bought, to be sold, to be repeated; it cannot be caught in books. It…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or…

— Stephen Fry

Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest… But, in its less rigorous, popular…

— Wendy Kaminer

“I’d always been a reader and I read a lot, usually sticking to books with some sort of romantic theme and a…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that…

— Alexander Koch

When people say don't judge a book by its cover that's complete bullshit...reality didn't hit them yet.

— Anonymous

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

— Walter Raleigh

I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children.

— Neil Gaiman

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

— John Hodgman

We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

— Walter Matthau

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved…

— Jan Karon

I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

— Anonymous

I was really bummed when I got to the last one of Tony Hillerman Navajo detective books.

— Dave Barry

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

— Eve Bunting

If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house.

— Lisa Scottoline

“The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business.”

— Michael Ben Zehabe

When I finish a book, I'm so exhausted that I'm sort of letting myself think that this could be the end.

— Jo Nesbo

I think the fact that I use salty words in my Bonhoeffer book would tip you off that I'm no prude, exactly.

— Eric Metaxas

You will learn more from your friends than you ever will from books. Choose your friends wisely

— Matthew Kelly

“To me; reading a book is like watching a movie. Once I start, I can't stop until it's over.”

— Anonymous