Book Quotes · Page 186

I'm a thirty-something gay man with a dodgy heart. I sell books for a living. Who wants to read about that?

— Josh Lanyon

I have a book! It's called 'How Does She Do It?' and it's 35 years on camera.

— Deidre Hall

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

— Joel Edgerton

I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

For me a book has always been a chance to reach out and connect to someone and not be alone.

— Margaret Stohl

I read "The Yoga Sutras" every day.And also the "The Bhagavad Gita." Those two books sit by my bed.

— Russell Simmons

Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.

— Joe Queenan

That’s all you really hope for from a book – that it’s going to resonate with young people and empower them in…

— Kwame Alexander

As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I…

— Victoria Chang

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

— Walter Benjamin

Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll…

— Amelie Nothomb

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a…

— Alice Hoffman

“A book is not a battle, nor is it a conquest. A book is a story, and telling it should be an…

— Rachel Aaron

Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would…

— E. M. Forster

I learned that you can't write a book in the margins of your life. I'd forgotten how much uninterrupted time it takes…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

I love my job. But all the stuff that comes with it, the thought of being propelled into the limelight again is…

— Winona Ryder

Gather up your telegrams Your faded pictures, best laid plans Books and postcards, 45's Every sunset in the sky Carry with you…

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

We were just trying to make the films that we could get made, and to push the envelope. We didn't realize how…

— William Friedkin

I was brought up on the books of The Wizard of Oz and my mother told me that these were great philosophies.…

— Ray Bolger

For years, I'd say yes to almost everything, trying to be nice and generous. Feeling obliged to be of service to the…

— Derek Sivers

What enriches language is its being handled and exploited by beautiful minds-not so much by making innovations as by expanding it through…

— Michel de Montaigne

Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even…

— C. S. Lewis

There is a wonderful book called "Gandhi's Truth," by Erik Erikson, the psychologist. It is a great book. And I remember reading…

— Barack Obama

Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.

— Mason Cooley

“Your time is precious so this book is short and to the point.”

— Luke Wroblewski

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

— T. S. Eliot

A book very much is the center of the road, so people always can refer back to it.

— Sakyong Mipham

Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.

— Alberto Manguel

A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.

— Sven Birkerts

Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.

— James Boswell

Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.

— Margaret Deland

I was reading all these books, including the Bible - and I'm an atheist.

— Margot Kidder

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

— Bret Easton Ellis

“The truth is, when I'm immersed in a book I'm less aware of the pain in my unpredictable arms and legs.”

— Christina Baker Kline

I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing

— Anne Tyler

“We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.”

— Sara Sheridan

Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!

— Ruth Gordon

The best and only authentic book written on the sixties underground.

— Dennis Hopper

I mean, there are things in the book you could never do in a movie.

— Noah Hathaway