Book Quotes · Page 195

“Finally! You're here!" Uh…Do I know you?" Well, no…But you're here, all the same...”

— Lynn Weingarten

“You're not a book person. And now you're not an internet person? What does that leave you?”

— Rainbow Rowell

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

— John Donne

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

— Steven Wright

I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.

— Thomas Carlyle

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

— Tom Clancy

“Move forward for forward is progress but circles are movement.”

— Agu Jaachynma N E

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

— Hilaire Belloc

God knows life sucks. It's right there in the Bible. The book of Job is all about Job asking God to take…

— Bill Maher

Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life,…

— Laurie Graham

“My brother, being an English gentleman, possesses a library in all his houses, though he never opens a book. This is called…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“There’s no better way to get to know a city than to walk its streets. A place will reveal its soul through…

— Henry Mosquera

I brewed potions in a vain search for life everlasting, I read books, I sang songs of history, And today I've come…

— Hanshan

When I wrote 'Marley & Me,' I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my…

— John Grogan

I don't give books as gifts. Books are extremely personal, and I would hate to give someone a book that they don't…

— Meg Cabot

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject…

— Tracy Kidder

Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work…

— Mark Haddon

I've written one book-length piece of journalism. The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi? That book had an impact. Eight…

— Francisco Goldman

“If there is only one insight you take away from this book, though, I hope it’s a newfound sense of entitlement to…

— Susan Cain

People read newspapers far more than they read the Word of God and then we wonder way America is in the mess…

— Lester Roloff

“When the first book out my sister-in-law read it and we were chatting at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and she said,…

— Sara Sheridan

“It was a bookstore, and he felt at home in bookstores, and he hadn’t had that feeling much lately. He was going…

— Lev Grossman

The power of reading a great book is that you start thinking like the author. For those magical moments while you are…

— Tony Robbins

When coming up with Wonder Woman cover designs, sometimes people will pitch ideas to me, either the writer or the editor. And…

— Cliff Chiang

The grave's a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there.

— Ursula Nordstrom

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

— Mahatma Gandhi

I've never understood why some people think it's virtuous and essential to finish every book they start.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

I think it's true to say that in 1973 I could read every book of poems that was published in a year,…

— Robert Hass

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it…

— Christopher Hampton

The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.

— Emma Thompson

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

— David Sedaris

You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul

— Paulo Coelho

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

— Noah Baumbach

Books don't only furnish a room: they also make the best holiday gifts.

— Michael Dirda

Someone should write a book where the main character slowly falls in love with the reader.

— Crystal Roby

I'm going to play as much as they want me to, as long as I can put up with what they book…

— Jules Shear

I would draw my own comic book characters listening to metal. The drawing and music kind of went hand in hand.

— Alan Robert

I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books.

— Rene Magritte