Book Quotes · Page 196

I think Stevie Wonder could sing the phone book and manage to make me cry.

— Brad Delp

Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.

— Jack Vance

“A book doesn't live when it's written. It lives when it's read.”

— Alice Hoffman

If I ever write a book, 'I Should Have Worn Comfortable Shoes' would be the title.

— Jacky Rosen

“When I read I get lost into the book my mind is set into the setting." - Kate”

— Kate

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

— Antonio Tabucchi

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“Don't let any situation intimidate you anymore, don't accept defeat anymore.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I have a cartoon I'm developing with Adult Swim called 'Monster Town U.S.A.,' so I'm busy doing that. Trying to do a…

— Norman Reedus

“The book depicts thoughts, unveils imaginings, answers unspoken questions, clarifies doubts, resolves arguments, and finally reveals the very atoms of the most…

— Anonymous

I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro,…

— Philip Reeve

Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the…

— Echo Bodine

My reputation when I was first here was that I had every single answer in the book. I don't know, maybe I…

— Mike Holmgren

“Apparently people who were in books actually sounded like a book when they talked. This was quite the surprising discovery.”

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or…

— James Patterson

One of the other reasons for writing this book [My Beloved World] was to hold on to the person you first met.…

— Sonia Sotomayor

All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a…

— John Donne

These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute…

— Catherynne M. Valente

I don't do much public speaking. I did a lot of stuff for Bones, and then ended up having said yes to…

— Alice Sebold

My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've dabbled in Hollywood,…

— Jess Walter

Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have…

— Stephen King

More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are in a…

— Isabel Allende

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

— Andre Maurois

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled This could change your life.

— Helen Exley

Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it.

— Scarlett Johansson

I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.

— Antonia Fraser

Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

— Karen Russell

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

— Henry James

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

— Marcel Proust

He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.

— Saadi

The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance.

— Efim Bogoljubov

“Courage is the ability to execute tasks and assignments without fear or intimidation.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.

— Deb Caletti

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

— Rachel Cusk

To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.

— Gwen Cooper

The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...

— A. Edward Newton

“Netiquette starts at home. Family values are a good frame of reference for netiquette rules.

— David Chiles

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

— Curtis Sittenfeld