Book Quotes · Page 199

I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

— George Whitman

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

— Josephine Tey

I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.

— Watty Piper

I was a terrible student. For me, to take a book home was a trial.

— Vladimir Horowitz

I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings.

— Taiye Selasi

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

— Anonymous

I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper.

— Geoff Thompson

Satisfying curiosity ranks No. 2 in my book behind conquering a fear.

— Scott Carpenter

History ... with its long, leisurely, gentlemanly labors, the books arriving by post, the cards to be kept and filed, the sections…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell.…

— Frederick Busch

A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath,…

— Elbert Hubbard

He [Michael Jackson] would choose specific moments. They were art history books that I prefer. They were paintings that he prefers. It's…

— Kehinde Wiley

An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was:…

— Joseph McCarthy

You pour your soul into your book, but you never know how it will be received, and when people like your baby,…

— Sabaa Tahir

I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a…

— Michael Craig-Martin

Everybody should write a book whether you get it published or not because the experience of sort of taking it all and…

— Gary Dell'Abate

Book CoverTo have people who are well informed but not constrained by conscience is conceivably, the most dangerous outcome of education possible.…

— Ernest L. Boyer

The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably…

— Sherman Alexie

I usually get up not before 9. I have a huge library - I'm a big fan of Scandinavian crime fiction -…

— Anthony Geary

I wrote a book of essays about New York called 'The Colossus of New York,' but it's not about - you know,…

— Colson Whitehead

Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas…

— Camille Paglia

Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on…

— Anne Lamott

The book by William Goldman, Adventures In The Screen Trade, great, awesome book. He talks about this very thing - that you…

— Beth Grant

Paste magazine has served as a tremendous window into culture for my house. I can think of no other publication that provides…

— Derek Webb

Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.

— Orlando Bloom

Jack Benny really liked my book. I know because he called me up from the library and told me.

— Bob Hope

Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.

— Pete Hautman

Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.

— Sally Schneider

A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.

— Joanne Greenberg

Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.

— William Gilbert

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

— Richard Paul Evans

If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help.

— George Carlin

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.

— Tim Vine

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

— Christopher Marlowe

A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three

— Italian Proverb

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

— Alberto Manguel

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

— Umberto Eco

“this book really is interesting that a soon as I got it I couldn't stop reading it.”

— Carolyn Hennesy

Purchasing and downloading a book on to your e-reader won't necessarily protect it from disappearing.

— Jonathan Zittrain

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

— John Boyne