Book Quotes · Page 211

I always have the impression that I write the same book.

— Patrick Modiano

Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths.

— Maggie Stiefvater

But he thought all the strange words were beautiful, and he had never had a book of his own before.

— Tove Jansson

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

— Erica Jong

Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.

— Nate Berkus

I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.

— Michael Morpurgo

My Sister Rosa was bumped from the schedule. None of my books has ever been bumped before. It freaked me out.

— Justine Larbalestier

“…she was so exhausted and tired, so overwhelmed, that she needed a Red Bull, to calm down and fall asleep.”

— Haidji

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Short chaps evolved naturally, but I didn't title and number them till much later. I like short chaps, like short books too,…

— Poe Ballantine

As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people…

— Ed Bradley

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a…

— David Duchovny

I come up with a blurb at the beginning, but the book will always be completely different by the time it's finished.…

— Irvine Welsh

My progressive ideals are screaming in [Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos] book; what I believe. There is no muddying-up because of…

— Angela Alioto

The Bible was the only book Jesus ever quoted, and then never as a basis for discussion but to decide the point…

— Leon Morris

You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had…

— Mary Roach

It's not as if the New Testament writers came along and said, "The culmination of Old Testament books is more books, New…

— D. A. Carson

I've never translated more than one book by any author. But I'm fascinated by translators who have, like Richard Zenith, who's translated…

— Idra Novey

It's an unusual way to write a crime novel, to have these lingering, fairly large story points, but it's something I knew…

— Tod Goldberg

What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set…

— Paul Theroux

I read The Vegetarian and fell in love with it. A year later, I was invited to go and speak at the…

— Deborah Smith

Building an Effective Women's Ministry is a brand new book from Harvest House Publishers. Sharon Jaynes, vice president of Proverbs 31 Ministries,…

— Brenda Poinsett

I had many wonderful experiences, received beautiful letters, and my Christian books received substantive and thoughtful reviews. But there was always argument,…

— Anne Rice

There is a beginning and an end to every book, its your choice to finish the book or to stop reading,life is…

— Chenoa Cobb

Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive.

— Fran Lebowitz

The tragedy of the Book of Mormon is not what became of the Nephites but what the Nephites became.

— Hugh Nibley

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

— Virginia Woolf

It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff.

— Chad Lindberg

As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed.

— Janet Evanovich

The biblical story of Noah can be found in the book of Genesis.

— Noah

Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood,

— Harper Lee

I think if Marvel called me to do anything - if they called me to film the phone book - I would…

— Kari Skogland

If God did not want us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.

— Dwight L. Moody

All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.

— Deborah Moggach

The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

— F. H. Bradley

Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.

— L. Ron Hubbard

I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.

— Henny Youngman

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A breeze discovered my open book And began to flutter the leaves to look

— Anonymous