Book Quotes · Page 218

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

— Malala Yousafzai

“Writing a book should be the best way to break into someone's house.”

— Krishna

I'm a huge Cormac McCarthy fan and have read every book of his.

— James Franco

Gently stroke your books, dear stranger, and remember they are dust.

— Miljenko Jergovic

A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.

— Henry David Thoreau

I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.

— Robert Cormier

I would just love to create a bunch of patents, I have a book of 50 right now.

— Kellan Lutz

“Fame in our day is too common to be confused with the enduring glow around the deserving book.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss…

— Julio Cortazar

You can be empathetic to a character in a book in a way that you can't with a real person, which is…

— Hank Green

The fact that the commercial success of my books has allowed me to buy a house for myself and my daughter I…

— Marianne Williamson

There's something called the 'Washington Read,' which is the habit of many locals to go into a bookstore, pull a book off…

— Mark Leibovich

I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.'…

— Patti Smith

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Final Execution is Wolverine's spotlight arc. He goes through a crazy thing here. I think the fear with him is that he's…

— Rick Remender

I think to put death on screen where it isn't that turns it into comic book time and there I think by…

— Joe Eszterhas

I have found there are real objects under in intelligent control being seen on the ground and in our skies worldwire. The…

— George Fawcett

Angus Deaton has written a wonderful book, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. . . . Deaton's book…

— Michael Marmot

“Narratives about certain experiences are somehow legitimized when mediated through a man’s perspective. Consider the work of John Updike or Richard Yates.…

— Roxane Gay

A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by…

— Meg Cabot

When I won my way to the international science fair, I didn't want to embarrass myself. It was the first time I…

— Charles M. Blow

To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some…

— Marcel Proust

Every religion ... has rituals, practices, holy writings or traditions, etc. Nothing like that has ever developed from Atheism. There are no…

— Darrel Ray

There were some particular themes that I knew I wanted to hit, and when I got deeper into the project I found…

— Moshe Kasher

Miracles is the sort of book that once you've read it you'll wonder where it's been all your life

— Kathie Lee Gifford

I can’t persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me,

— Lawrence Block

I don't think women are interesting enough to merit a book. They're more of a pamphlet sex.

— Alex Linder

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

— Francoise Sagan

I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.

— Herman Melville

As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.

— Kadir Nelson

“God wants all man's attention, thoughts and focus to be on Him.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I knew a bit about 'Emma' through the book when I was younger, but actually more from 'Clueless'.

— Josh O'Connor

I was anticipating that some readers might misread [the book] ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling.

— Emma Donoghue

The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become

— Sheridan Hay

Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.

— Walker Percy

The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Books had always been a comfort to me, an escape from reality when reality got to be too real.”

— Julie Fisher

If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important

— Roald Dahl

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

— Jane Yolen

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

— John Green