Book Quotes · Page 204

A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.

— John Hodgman

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.

— Annie Dillard

“...books give a man ideas, they make him want to live.”

— Patricia Engel

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

— Frank Zappa

I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

— Toni Morrison

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

— Marsilio Ficino

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Children learn to read by being in the presence of books.”

— Horace Mann

“Lord! haven't I seen you with the greatest authors in your hands, and don't I know how ready your attention is to…

— Wilkie Collins

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be…

— George Gissing

I look at the plotline and let my co-author basically write the book; first draft. Then they give it to me, and…

— Janet Evanovich

Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible,…

— Noah Webster

The Book of Mormon is true, just what it purports to be, and for this testimony I expect to give an account…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

I do get scared, but I think - like it says in another book I've read - feel the fear and do…

— Geri Halliwell

The research in Ralph Keyes' The Quote Verifier is impressive, and each conclusion is like the solution to a real-life historical mystery.…

— Will Shortz

If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

People do amazing things for love. Books are full of wonderful stories about this kind of stuff, and stories aren’t just fantasies,…

— Mahbod Seraji

I was lucky to book a show pretty quickly after getting to L.A., but I struggled getting started in Vancouver. If I…

— Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

We no longer just take religious identity from our parents, so what's going on? Why are people going to this series, why…

— Bruce Feiler

“All books are good,’ he said. ‘That’s not true,’ I said. ‘I’ve read some really bad books.’ I was thinking specifically of…

— Lisa Jewell

Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole's everlasting…

— Paul Cezanne

Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was…

— John Updike

Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with…

— Garry Wills

Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies]

— Ernst Junger

I guess if I wrote a book one day, it would be about hair

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

“... isn't breaking a supervillian out of jail a little ... much?”

— Kirstin van Dyke

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

— Jeanette Winterson

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.

— Stephen Dorff

“the way I used to turn the pages of a book to find out what happens in the final chapter”

— Rachel Cusk

I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

— Karl Marx

I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.

— Evelyn Waugh

Godfather' is based on a book and it is one of the best films.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

— Abraham Lincoln

“The characters and events in this book are fictitious.”

— Daniel Abraham

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

— Mark Haddon

“Don't buy books for your shelf, buy them for yourself.”

— Saji Ijiyemi

Life isn't a book. There's no guarantee of a happy ending.

— Anonymous

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

— James Russell Lowell

My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.

— James Patterson