Book Quotes · Page 216

“If you have a book, and an imagination, you can never find yourself alone. Ever.”

— William Fritz

'Wingnuts' is the first book bearing the imprint of Beast Books.

— Tina Brown

I hate to tell you this, but I did not know what the National Book Award was when I got the call.

— Katherine Dunn

I've been a big music guy for a long time and a lot of my books have music in them so I…

— Charles Soule

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

— Dan Savage

“never judge a book by its cover,whats in it is a way of life.”

— Maceo Mays

I get so annoyed by famous people who have not actually written the books they slap their names on.

— Anderson Cooper

When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read.

— John Philip Kemble

We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class…

— Michel Aflaq

With all the things I know, one could write a book... Although, one might also say that, considering all that I don’t…

— Sacha Guitry

“The most enjoyable book in the world is the phone book, because think of all the sex that went into creating the…

— Jarod Kintz

“Truly, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be…

— Fay Weldon

This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come…

— Alberto Manguel

I remember looking at books when I was in high school, but I don't think I really stood in front of a…

— Joe Bradley

If you were to loose the habit of making the effort to get the book and read the words one by one…

— Chinua Achebe

Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead…

— Elmore Leonard

If you're running a 26-mile marathon, remember that every mile is run one step at a time. If you are writing a…

— Charles R. Swindoll

When I'm 18 years old, I'm at a friend's house. And his uncle looks me in me eye - you know, by…

— Paula White

There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

As a kid, I'd buy novels with these magnificent Chris Fosse covers which showed an enormous contraption hovering over a planet, and…

— Alastair Reynolds

A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Looks is more important…

— Roald Dahl

Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read.…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The woman dashed up the staircase toward the library's main doors. Arriving at the top of the stairs, she grabbed the handle…

— Dan Brown

At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the…

— Nicole Krauss

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

— Anonymous

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

— Gabrielle Zevin

Sometimes you don't know what a book is about until you are finished with it and you're talking about it.

— Jenny Han

No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

— Eugene Field

For a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]

— Marcel Proust

“If you don't see the book you want on the shelf, write it.”

— Beverly Cleary

I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books.

— Mark Kurlansky

“Nothing can compare to the feeling evoked by turning the page in a great book.”

— Aneta Cruz

Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.

— Willa Cather

Joe Wambaugh's a friend. I know him only casually, but I like him a lot. I think he likes my books.

— James Ellroy

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.

— Ann Beattie

I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.

— Henry Rollins

Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading.

— Stephen D. Krashen

“This is for all you kids out there watching TV, when you should go open a book. Haha.”

— Blake Lewis

Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.

— Siri Hustvedt