Book Quotes · Page 184

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

— Emma Thompson

Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.

— James Salter

“If people were rain i was drizzle and she was a hurrican.”

— John Green

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

— David Mitchell

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

— Maxim Gorky

Anybody who tells you they're not scared when starting a new book project is a very good liar.

— Uzodinma Iweala

The thing people don't realize, God bless them, is that my books are supposed to suck.

— Stephenie Meyer

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote…

— Anonymous

The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I'm an avid plant collector, and I love to ride…

— Bill Walton

'The End of Men' was an incendiary title, but the actual book was very sympathetic to men. It was very invested in…

— Rebecca Traister

The harm that comes to souls from the lack of reading holy books makes me shudder... What power spiritual reading has to…

— Pio of Pietrelcina

Everyone brings their own perceptions when reading a book about a real person. At the end they will take away whatever they…

— Patricia Montandon

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian…

— Abraham Lincoln

Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why…

— Anonymous

An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it…

— David Nicholls

“The broken spine of the book shows the webbing of binder's string, and my fingers have worn white spots in the cover.”

— Susan Straight

The thing that was much harder than I expected was figuring out what to do with 20 tons of books. That led…

— Ian Christe

Despite the variety my books reflect my, perhaps foolish, tendency to place artistic above financial concerns; of enjoying the more mature themes…

— Sean Michael Wilson

There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should…

— Hermann Hesse

Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken: no prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Whether the birds fly right or left, whatever be…

— Friedrich Schiller

Twenty years ago, when I started writing, I didn't define myself as an African-American writer. And then you write books and you're…

— Colson Whitehead

I'd say the purest experience for the movie is not to have read the book because I think when you've read the…

— Zack Snyder

One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about…

— Graham Greene

Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

— Edmond Jabes

“Great American Novel” = ”doorstop of a book, usually pretentious, written by a man.”

— Lionel Shriver

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

— Rick Riordan

I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way…

— Al Seckel

Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

— E. M. Forster

My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.

— Edward Abbey

“Books only change the world if the world is capable of digesting them.”

— Luther Blissett

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different…

— Cornelia Funke

“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands." (As quoted on BookRiot , June 18, 2013)”

— Neil Gaiman

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.

— Erik Larson

The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins.

— Jonathan Daniels

I'm not a very glamorous person. I like to just sit alone in a room and read a book or meditate.

— Yuval Noah Harari

A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

— Dick Cavett

“Even if the sum total of human knowledge is available online, a book is still a powerful thing.”

— M.H. Van Keuren

I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well.

— Steven Moffat

Every new album for me is a blank book of stories to write.

— Laufey