Book Quotes · Page 214

“People have incredible nerve to do terrible things, but never actually admit to them.”

— Henry Mosquera

In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.

— Luc de Clapiers

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

— Victor Hugo

It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.

— Emily Barton

Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.

— Shelby Foote

Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.

— Cecelia Ahern

“After Puckoon I swore I'd never write another book. This is it”

— Spike Milligan

Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I'm a case of working forty years…

— George R. R. Martin

Slobberknocker: My Life in Wrestling' is really not a wrestling book. It's a book about life, and there's a great love story…

— Jim Ross

I think you get so wrapped up in the book you're currently writing, it's hard to think about anything else. But I…

— Meg Cabot

The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information…

— Doris Lessing

I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want…

— Dan Brown

There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a…

— Edna O'Brien

Don't just float through life; don't just agree to anything and everything, have a course you are known for at all times.

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write…

— Jodi Picoult

People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still…

— Paulo Coelho

“Why should every pregnant woman be expected to read the same book? Or any book? Being pregnant isn't that complicated. What to…

— Rainbow Rowell

Now it's dedicated to my grandparents and to both of my parents. The first book was dedicated to my mother so I…

— Carrie Fisher

Google Books Excuses for All Occasions: Alibis, Apologies, and Cop-Outs That Can Get You Out of (or Into) Trouble By Steven D.…

— Babe Ruth

“That brings me to the real reason for the title: Where does that which happens during reading a book take place? (...)…

— Michael Ende

There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited…

— Anonymous

“When I pick up a book and read it, I want to be transported. I want to be taken someplace that I…

— Anthony Marra

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

— John Berger

“One day, I'll sit down with all my books around me, and just start reading.”

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

— Ernest Dimnet

He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of…

— Pliny the Younger

“A book is a blessing that comes into our lives to teach, entertain, and inspire.”

— Jesenia Sanabia

“Writing a book and not publishing it, is like building a boat and never sailing it - UNTHINKABLE!”

— Tony Jones

Elend: I kind of lost track of time… Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved.

— Brandon Sanderson

It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

— Jodi Picoult

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

— Rumer Godden

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

— Lord Acton

Engaging and well paced, the book fills in the reality behind Vonnegut's work

— Charles J. Shields

“I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. Steven Wright”

— Anonymous

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

— Christine Keeler

To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.

— Edward Gibbon

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

— Suzanne Collins