Book Quotes · Page 208

Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.

— Victor Borge

“They believed all books should be read, for as long as the reader liked.”

— Alice Hoffman

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

— William Gibson

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

— Alec Baldwin

“Shout out for Joy! Don't scream out in fear for victors shout and victims scream.”

— Agu Jaachynma N E

“If you don't love to read, you just haven't found the right book.”

— Tim Green

I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

— Tony Hillerman

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

— Lee Child

For there is a wind or a ghost of wind in all books echoing the life there, a high wind that fills…

— William Carlos Williams

She looked at her shelves, filled with books in which the bad stuff that happened to people was caused by things like…

— Anne Ursu

As a child I read all kinds of stuff, whether it was 'Asterix and Obelix' and 'Tin Tin' comic books, or 'Lord…

— Mohsin Hamid

I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see…

— Thornton Wilder

One of my favorite moments in that book [As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth] was when something happened…

— Lynne Rae Perkins

“If you don't have the physical conditioning necessary to get your self out of trouble, the skills in this book won't do…

— Clint Emerson

I don't judge in my books. I don't have to have the antagonist get shot or the protagonist win. It's just how…

— Elmore Leonard

...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy,…

— Félix J. Palma

When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am.…

— Matt de la Pena

Stop it. This is serious! (Selena) Serious? Please. I’m standing out here on my twenty-ninth birthday, barefoot and in jeans my mother…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

The Bible becomes a dead idol when we call the words between its covers inerrant, infallible, to be taken literally. This is…

— Mel White

To put it one way, a collection of Shakespeare's plays is richer than a phone book that uses the same number of…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily…

— Norton Juster

My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in…

— Carl Hiaasen

The old saying of work hard, play hard really works for me. For me it's all about focus. To get the Fire…

— Danielle LaPorte

Of all needs a book has, the chief need is to be readable.

— Anthony Trollope

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

— Stephen King

Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.

— Roy Peter Clark

“Life is an open book, with the potential to become whatever can be comprehended.”

— Steven Redhead

When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.

— Paullina Simons

'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in…

— Marjane Satrapi

When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.

— Anonymous

There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

— Aaron Carter

I hate to badmouth any book or writer, because I know how it feels to be on the other end of that.

— Karin Slaughter

I don't judge the book by its cover, I judge the cover by its book. And guess what, the book is still…

— Unkown

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

— Chuck Palahniuk

A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with…

— E. L. Doctorow

I love reading books, I love the way they feel and getting through it. It's like an event!

— Kate Nash

Sharing education, sharing a book…that’s what changes the world.

— Brad Meltzer

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

— Marilyn Hacker

I don't read books. I read the Daily Express and The Star.

— Tim Sherwood