Book Quotes · Page 212

“Every man is a story book. It has drama, adventure, comedy, tragedy, fantasy, and romance.”

— Sunil Thomas

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

— Michael Morpurgo

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

Sweetie, if you opened a book more times than you opened your legs,you might actually get somewhere in life.

— Nikhil Saluja

“To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list.”

— John Aiken

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.

— Angela Carter

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

— Mem Fox

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

— William Styron

“The book, and its offspring the periodical, which hold more knowledge than one human memory can retain, have long served as extensions…

— Frederick Kilgour

I always travel with my iPod and I've never read a book in my life. It makes me tired; my brain is…

— Gino D'Acampo

“A human life Is the time that happens while The Earth takes a break For you to live between Inhaling and exhaling…

— Haidji

You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder…

— David Gray

I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that…

— Donald Ray Pollock

Naturally, I mine my girlfriends' lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my…

— Lauren Weisberger

I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me…

— Madhur Bhandarkar

The style, often found difficult in the earlier books, is just as individual but more perfectly modulated to experience, and the dialogue…

— Geoffrey Dutton

The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book…

— George William Curtis

'The Cape' is a really good comic! They invented the whole character, and now they've built a book of 'The Cape' for…

— James Frain

The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that…

— Harlan Coben

I always loved watching and reading family-friendly mysteries growing up, like the shows Murder, She Wrote and Nancy Drew, and am thrilled…

— Candace Cameron

There are stylists I really love. I'm a huge Joan Didion fan - if I wrote something that she might like, then…

— John Darnielle

Having children takes the focus off yourself, which I'm really grateful for. I'm so tired of thinking about myself. I'm sick of…

— Brad Pitt

If someone considers the prophetic writings with all the diligence and reverence they are worth, while he reads and examines with great…

— Origen

I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.

— Bristol Palin

It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon

— Robert B. Parker

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

— William Hague

“Thereis no such thing as amoral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

— Oscar Wilde

My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.

— Pink

The mirror is the mother dew, the book of desiccated twilights, echo become flesh.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

“Crazy people. They never think they're crazy. Their craziness makes perfect sense to them.”

— Rick Yancey

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

— Michael Cunningham

Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.

— Judy Blume

“She kept her nose in a book and her head in the clouds.”

— Karen Robards

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

— Cassandra Clare

Life has many different chapters of story. One bad chapter doesn't mean it's the end of the book.

— Anonymous

Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.

— Amy Harmon

And when I'm not working, my agent books three auditions a day...I'd rather go to the set and work.

— Noureen DeWulf

“Reading books will get you to the door, reading people will get you inside the room.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo