Book Quotes · Page 213

I love the book legacy of lies it amazing and is fun to read over and over again

— Elizabeth Chandler

Parents should leave books lying around marked ‘forbidden’ if they want their children to read.

— Doris Lessing

The book is not completely written until someone else has read it.

— Terry Pratchett

I love reading. I spend a huge amount of time travelling on planes and have always got a book on the go.

— Ben Fogle

I keep my self updated by reading different books and encyclopedias.

— Arfa Karim

A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!

— Diana Gabaldon

I think a good book is a good book forever. I don't think they get less good because times change.

— Megan Whalen Turner

I like books on tape, and will listen to just about anything.

— David Sedaris

Gerald Jonas's book about stuttering is called 'The Disorder of Many Theories.' Back theory seems to suffer from the same 'Rashomon' effect:…

— David Shields

First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they…

— Jack L. Chalker

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys

— Harvey Pekar

My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full…

— Sarah Dessen

The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All…

— Daniel Handler

Wagner's philosophy had absolutely nothing to do with Bruckner. Bruckner hadn't written a single word against Jews. Wagner's book on the Jews…

— Zubin Mehta

I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good…

— Penn Jillette

In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many…

— Mortimer Adler

I never wrote anything down. I never kept a diary, never kept a journal. I did write one letter home about touring…

— Linda Ronstadt

Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great…

— Donald E. Westlake

The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon--Gordon Comstock, last member of…

— George Orwell

You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret?…

— Nancy Werlin

Alphabet Juice is the book Roy Blount was born to write, which considering his prodigious talent, is saying a lot. Did you…

— Cathleen Schine

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their…

— Paul Theroux

When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political…

— David Brin

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror,…

— Bono

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

— Christopher Paolini

I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

— Amy Winehouse

A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

— Louis L'Amour

Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.

— Bill Whittle

I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.

— Jonathan Franzen

“The last page of a book is a sacred space that even lovers respect.”

— Tor Udall

If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.

— William H. Gass

I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

There is a certain degree of 'steampunkishness' that creeps into my books.

— Jasper Fforde

The books that matter to me...are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself.

— Sven Birkerts

“Three possessions you should prize: A field, a friend, and a book.”

— Hai guan zong shui wu si shu China Hai guan zong shui wu si shu

A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.

— Christopher McQuarrie

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

— Walter Benjamin

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

— Lois Lowry

“Somebody once said if it’s something a single book can explain, it’s not worth having explained.”

— Haruki Murakami

I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation ...

— Patti Smith