Book Quotes · Page 215

I've never really been a big sci-fi guy or a big comic book guy.

— Sendhil Ramamurthy

Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold.

— Neil Gaiman

I have studied this Book, and I would never even dream of saying I've come to the bottom of the Word of…

— Adrian Rogers

I'm kind of a comic book geek, but I'm not really a super hero comic book geek.

— Eric Kripke

Mostly what ends up inspiring me and affecting my work are books by authors that I love.

— Christine Sneed

Wherever we are, we can improve our chances of getting ahead by keeping a book in hand

— Michael Hyatt

“Any book thoughtfully read sharpens the mind and improves on and individual's professional potential.”

— James F. Amos

May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

— Abraham Cowley

Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Whenever I teach you always learn something. Some of the greatest things you learn, aren't always in books. - Mr. Bucon”

— Brooke Alexander Zoey Porter

A book is like carrying a garden in your pocket. It always is full of life, new smells, and new things to…

— Curly

“I've always longed to turn the last page of a romantic novel but it seems my life is destined to remain a…

— Michael Faudet

In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time…

— Douglas Coupland

What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of…

— Douglass North

As a traveler, I should probably count myself fortunate to be living in the jet age, and as an author, I know…

— Amor Towles

“After my first book was published, I received an envelope full of religious material from a fan who wanted to save my…

— Carol O'Connell

“That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

I know the Pollock novel. Read it last year and liked it. Daniel Woodrell is awesome. I especially like the book Winter's…

— Joe R. Lansdale

A book came out recently written by scientists and environmentalists that made me so angry. It said the only thing we have…

— Jane Goodall

I have an oddball sense of humor. So when there was an episode at a comic book convention-of course they end up…

— Erica Durance

Above all, translators must be native speakers. It’s not because they speak the language better – I understand that sometimes a foreigner…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the…

— Jeanette Winterson

One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from…

— Charles Frazier

They left no books , Memorial to their lonely thought In grey parishes: rather they wrote On men's hearts and in the…

— R. S. Thomas

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

— Michael Ondaatje

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

— Gail Carson Levine

It's weird - sort of not terribly wise - to take a book that was successful and then change its cover.

— Augusten Burroughs

“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ”

— Agatha Christie

For the size of it, a check book is about the greatest convenience I know of.

— Myrtle Reed

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.

— Brandon Sanderson

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be…

— William Godwin

All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.

— Kate DiCamillo

“Books took away the pain and disappointment, they always did. Books closed bad doors and opened good ones.”

— Anonymous

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

— Edward Albee

History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.

— Holbrook Jackson

Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.

— Laura Matilda Towne

Don't back to a book, if you already know how its going to end

— Anonymous

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

— Hermann Hesse

I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.

— Robert Green Ingersoll