Book Quotes · Page 190

A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“Wisdom is in books,... quote by me Halina Lagarde . Dan Brown is an inspiration to a book I am writing.”

— Halina Lagarde

Whenever I'm on a book tour, one of the questions I always get asked is what to wear to various occasions.

— Nina Garcia

“It's in books that most of us learn how splendidly worth-while life is.”

— Christopher Morley

You do not have to protect people's pocket books. They'll do a better job of that than you will.

— Johnny Hunt

'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.

— Evangeline Lilly

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

— Wentworth Miller

The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor.

— John Allen Paulos

Everyone has a set of presuppositions: what gender is, what it's not. And they may not write them out or they may…

— Judith Butler

The cover, thickness and knowledge in a book often has little value, the secret is to know when to turn the page.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God,…

— Mattie Stepanek

“Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to…

— Jonathan Swift

[Arthur Koestler] wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what…

— Nat Hentoff

The Bible is not for the people; whosoever will be saved must renounce it. It is a forbidden book. Bible societies are…

— Pope Pius IV

The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of…

— Bruce Chatwin

I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know.…

— Matt de la Pena

Certain I am that every author who has written a book with earnest forethought and fondly cherished designs will bear testimony to…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I think because of these big issues of life and death that maybe sex feels like a crass question. But for Christ…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Sometimes you change to survive, and some things you don't give up, or you're too prideful, and then you think well, what's…

— Amy Tan

I particularly love where I work because I was born, raised, and still live in the Bronx. I work in a Bronx…

— Sofia Quintero

I thought I might get a part as a farmer. I knew about the books but I hadn't read them. A few…

— Christopher Timothy

Before I start a project, I always ask myself the following question. Why is this book worth a year of my life?…

— David Morrell

To many people Michael Jackson seems an elusive personality, but to those who work with him, he is not. This talented artist…

— Jackie Kennedy

I just thought it made sense to call a book 'Not Garbage,' even though the majority of it was going to be…

— Leo Fitzpatrick

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

His eyes gravitated towards the wall-to-wall bookshelf at one end of the room. 'You folks like books, I see.

— Regina Doman

Your intention for a book is never the same as the reception.

— Neil Strauss

It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

— Robert Fulghum

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream.

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

— Geraldine Brooks

“This first book’s for everyone, though almost no one wants it or would know how to read it.”

— China Miéville

Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.

— Diane Setterfield

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", great story, great film.”

— Deyth Banger

I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think...

— John Green

Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp,

— Tom Clancy

“The Bible is the one book we’ve most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way.”

— Geoffrey Wood

The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.

— Spencer Wells

“Books bring alluring colors to our mundane black and white world.”

— Caleb Reese

I could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me.

— Kevin Sessums