Book Quotes · Page 217

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

— Alberto Manguel

I never know if a book is crazy or not. There's that fear - this is the one that will end it…

— Daniel Clowes

When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.

— Natalie Imbruglia

...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.

— Robert A. Heinlein

It sucks to try and book a tour without the internet, and I'm not even doing it.

— Kyle Parker

“distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)”

— Seneca

I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.

— Mason Cooley

The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have met so many young people who do not see the church as relevant and do not consider the Bible a…

— Ken Ham

I read a lot of those Single Girl in New York books, like "Fear of Flying," where you could sort of put…

— Charles Busch

I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of laughs. And people who describe…

— Richard Dawkins

I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really…

— Khaled Hosseini

“My TV’s remote control didn’t have a source of energy, so I poured coffee in it. Now I can read any book…

— Jarod Kintz

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the…

— Rachel Kushner

Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time…

— Gary Paulsen

When I have time, I write other things. I'm working on a book, I paint, I sculpt, I play with my dog,…

— Taylor Momsen

My work is very dear to me, and certainly I have had all the emotional highs and lows that go with trying…

— Daniel Handler

I found Esau’s field guide at the bottom of my pack. Taking a candle into the bedroom, I read his book until…

— Maria V. Snyder

Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ignoring for a moment the power of the American Medical Association, we still wouldn't see a huge amount of books on neurosurgery…

— Erik Naggum

Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea…

— Virginia Woolf

In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the children’s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories I’ve been hearing…

— Paul O. Zelinsky

But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them;…

— Ramona Koval

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

— David Sedaris

“A writer should be on a quest to get better and better with each book. May it be a never-ending quest.”

— Mark Rubinstein

I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books

— Julian Clary

The books all say that barracuda rarely eat people, but very few barracuda can read.

— Dave Barry

“He is holding a book. Inside the book is the Universe.”

— Neil Gaiman

I'm uncomfortable trying to rush change of perception, except to the extent that I'm going to write a book.

— George W. Bush

We always wanted to do a children's book of some form or another.

— Nancy Wilson

To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily.

— Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned.

— Sue Townsend

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

— Shane Carruth

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.

— A. N. Wilson

As far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs.

— Jesse Ball

“The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page.”

— St Augustine

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.

— Dwight L. Moody

Use book value as a starting point to try and establish the value of the enterprise.

— Walter Schloss

I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel.

— Walter Hill