Book Quotes · Page 203

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

— Donald Miller

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section.

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

I don't mind what people say about me. I've never read a book about myself.

— Rupert Murdoch

My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

— Beverly Cleary

“Nobody reads poetry anymore So who the hell are you I see bent over this book?”

— Aleksandar Ristovic

To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.

— Julian Barnes

With contemporary writers, I often buy books and then realise I've bought them before.

— Prue Leith

“They will need you to put the right books in their hands, book in which they can lose themselves and books in…

— Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst

I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great…

— Ted Rall

Its time for me to turn the page, in the book I'm writing. time to begin a new chapter... time to stop…

— Author Name

High Concept means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger…

— Martin Cruz Smith

Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or…

— Michael Dirda

I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by…

— Tom Peters

I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father…

— Paula Danziger

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how…

— Kathryn Stockett

In one of my favorite anecdotes about Foucault, someone asks him why he writes books. He responds by saying something like "When…

— Thomas L. Dumm

Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I get hundreds of emails daily and a lot of feedback from people that are reading or have read my books. When…

— Isabel Allende

Growing up, my two favorite books were Woody Allen's 'Side Effects' and Phyllis Diller's 'Housekeeping Hints.' I carried that Phyllis Diller book…

— Jill Davis

If I as a geologist were called upon to explain briefly our modern ideas of the origin of the earth and the…

— Wallace Pratt

I think if I were reading to a grandchild, I might read Tolstoy's War and Peace. They would learn about Russia, they…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“The book should be the written counterpart of the unwritten world; its subject should be what does not exist and cannot exist…

— Italo Calvino

“Juliet and Romeo Awake the scene, a twilight chamber’d dream, Two angels both alike in dignity: One imaged misadventure on the screen;…

— Tiger Lewis

Book marketing is a skill: it takes knowledge, effort, and persistence to really be successful.

— Heather Hart

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.

— Chris Cleave

reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat.

— Becca Fitzpatrick

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“This book is dedicated, with love, to Bobby, who has found the only pound of pure- Faith in a Loving God.”

— Hubert Selby Jr

Having a family that loves books and loves to read has always created a common ground for communication.

— Tony DiTerlizzi

I've come to the conclusion that you can't write scary books unless you're easily scared yourself.

— Mary Downing Hahn

I try to have each book be an antidote to the one before.

— Colson Whitehead

It feels like we're in a Harry Potter book talking about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“The Baby Name book can be a very dangerous tool in the hands of a prolific author.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.

— Will Rogers

I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.

— Nathan Fillion

I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my…

— Lenny Kravitz

A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.

— George Murray