Book Quotes · Page 183

Books make great gifts because they're something you love that you can share.

— John Lithgow

It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.

— Philip Schaff

“The books I like...contain things to ponder, ignore, memorize, and laugh and wonder at.”

— Seymour Chwast

There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My book is already online. I can type 150 words a minute. I took typing in high school.

— Burton Cummings

They write them long because they can't write them short.

— Raymond Chandler

I write books to relieve myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.

— Bret Easton Ellis

'Your Erroneous Zones' was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

— Wayne Dyer

When I pick up a book that's, you know, wreathed in laurels, I expect a lot, and that doesn't give the book…

— Jennifer Egan

For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the…

— Neil Tennant

Because books are written by individuals, it has often made knowledge seem like the product of individuals, even though everybody has always…

— David Weinberger

When a book is read an irrevocable thing happens — a murder, followed by an imposture. The story in the mind murders…

— Mike Carey

The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his…

— Elif Batuman

I really love to write about food, crafts, and fashion, so those details will always be a part of my books. I…

— Jenny Han

I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get…

— Jodi Picoult

When I'm writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try…

— Italo Calvino

The Ploughmen is as good a book as I’ve read in years. Kim Zupan’s language is as rich as Cormac McCarthy’s, and…

— Rick DeMarinis

Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy…

— Nikki Sixx

That's the thing: once it's in their hands, it's not my book anymore, it's theirs. I have no idea what happens when…

— Rosecrans Baldwin

My foray into young adult lit was by no means planned. I wrote the first 'Alfred Kropp' book as an adult novel,…

— Rick Yancey

In urging all writers to be steadfast in reliance on the ultimate victory of excellence, we should no less strenuously urge upon…

— George Henry Lewes

Yeah, Jacob transforms a lot in 'New Moon.' Not only physically, but mentally and emotionally as well. So it was a matter…

— Taylor Lautner

'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it…

— Rachel Joyce

“Jamie felt a strong desire to go across and see what the open books were, to go to the shelves and run…

— Diana Gabaldon

That awkward moment when the internet goes down so you have to use your book to find the answers.

— Anonymous

Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.

— Heinrich Heine

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

— Anonymous

Isn't that interesting. All the book clubs. I've never belonged to one.

— Judy Blume

“Each time a girl opens a book and finds a womanless history, she learns she is worth less.”

— Myra Pollack Sadker

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

— Talulah Riley

I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore.

— Maurice Sendak

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

— William H. Gass

You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.

— Wilbur Smith

In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.

— Aldous Huxley

I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.

— William Shakespeare

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

— Eric Schmidt

No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading.

— Ronald Fisher

We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other,

— Henry Jenkins

Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.

— Edwin Arlington Robinson