Book Quotes · Page 185

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

— Elizabeth Moon

“I wanted to read all these books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something to do…

— Bob Dylan

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole other world in books.

— Michael Jackson

Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did.

— Bill Johnson

The judge threw the book at my man, judges like throwin books so I throw magazines.

— Papoose

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow…

— Lynda Barry

“I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.”

— Daniel T. O'Hara

“If you did not read the book, you don't know the story.”

— Niedria Dionne Kenny

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

— Maya Angelou

I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and…

— Jeremy Collier

[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books…

— Judy Blume

If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're…

— Natalie Portman

I've often described my book 'Anno Dracula' as 'literally, a vampire novel' - in that it battens on to other novels and…

— Kim Newman

I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been…

— Anna Quindlen

“And we can read - there is always the prospect of escape, through books." "Books are not a means of 'escape', Meta!…

— Joyce Carol Oates

My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Now, because he knows that his economic theories don't work, he's been spending these last few days calling me every name in…

— Barack Obama

All the same, they [books] do serve some purpose. Culture doesn't save anything or anyone, it doesn't justify. But it's a product…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Directing is a reactionary job more than a creation job. The job is to react whether it's moment one, the first time…

— Jason Reitman

A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go…

— E. B. White

I would make up [Theodor] Seuss-like books at night when I was cleaning up from the dinner, you know, putting these little…

— Judy Blume

Maybe that's the foundation of my book: how do we come to terms with the death of someone we love when it…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

“Crammed among the stacks of books in his room, the author treated literature as if each book were a window in a…

— Joseph Patrick Pascale

Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my…

— Orhan Pamuk

“The ability to forget is a blessing, just like memory is.”

— Marwane Caber

I have a bad habit of picking up books about drugs, but that's better than having a drug habit, I think.

— Andrew VanWyngarden

“If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book.”

— Lorii Myers

Books and technology are braided together and always have been.

— Robin Sloan

“Let your words glorify God and edify your hearers and then beautify your life.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.

— Rebecca McClanahan

I'm a fan of comic books. I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I'm all that stuff.

— John Barrowman

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

— Lord Byron

I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.

— Ann Patchett

We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.

— LeVar Burton

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.

— Johann Heinrich Lambert

I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

— Rick Bragg

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

— Anonymous

Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child

— Anonymous

You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.

— Woody Allen

My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.

— Meg Cabot