Book Quotes · Page 207

“Working with people made me like my books so much more.”

— Lynn Cahoon

“Libraries are place where one can find satisfaction through books by discovering more ideas”

— Abid Hussain Library Officer

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

— Maud Hart Lovelace

Roy Race was a comic book hero, and Steven Gerrard is a real-life one.

— Harry Redknapp

I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea.

— Barack Obama

I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book.

— Robert Crais

Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I would like [the working man] to give me back books and newspapers and theories. And I would like to give him…

— D. H. Lawrence

There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal…

— Donald Miller

When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to…

— Dave Eggers

I guess in my own egotistical way I like to create my own library of Batman books that doesn't run contrary to…

— Frank Miller

Just think how many books I could've sold if Harry had been a bit more creative with his wand." -[On the success…

— Anonymous

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in…

— Andre Maurois

If a writer knows what he or she is doing, I'll go along for the ride. If he or she doesn't... well,…

— Stephen King

“No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it, unless it were true and…

— George Cannon

Both Christianity and Islam are logocentric,” he told his students, “meaning they are focused on the Word. In Christian tradition, the Word…

— Dan Brown

You must take a year off, one of these days, before you’re old and tired and weighed down by responsibility. Go away…

— Helon Habila

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in…

— Robert Greene

I don't read reviews or take any feedback from anyone. Here's the thing: The stories don't even care what I think about…

— J.R. Ward

It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a…

— Richard Wright

When you're young - when I was young - you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in…

— Julian Barnes

So long as the mental and moral instruction of man is left solely in the hands of hired servants of the public--let…

— Frances Wright

The Place of Religion in Chicago is a clearly written account of a little-studied aspect of American landscape. Based on unique field…

— Peter Haggett

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

— Geraldine Brooks

Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.

— Richard Allington

If we lose our phones, we lose our phone books. You don't memorize numbers anymore.

— Ellen DeGeneres

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

— William Hazlitt

I was in three of the Harry Potter films without reading one of those book, quite thankfully.

— Tom Felton

I have tons of fans in Canada. I've sold hundreds of thousands of books there.

— Tucker Max

Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.

— Mervyn Peake

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.

— Princess Diana

Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy.

— Robert Fripp

'Wajah Tum Ho' experience in my history book will be in my top 5.

— Sana Khan

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

— John Lennon

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

— Robert M. Gates

“A bestseller is a book written by a rich person of Indian roots staying in Europe for more than a decade..”

— Himmilicious

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

— Charles Kingsley