Book Quotes · Page 219

I read a book not to find its meaning, but to find my happiness.

— Carson Cistulli

This is perhaps the most important book on evolutionary genetics ever written

— Ronald Fisher

Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

— Carl Sagan

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.

— Anatole France

“I did not care for the book the Shack at all! It all seemed a little far fetched.”

— paul

Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.

— Jill Lepore

One of my brothers read a lot. His head was forever in some book.

— Malcolm X

“I loved the story but also enjoyed the format of the book, which includes e-mail messages. Janice L. Jones”

— Vicki M. Taylor

“If I have not read a book before, it is for all intents and purposes new to me whether it was printed…

— William Haizlett

To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not…

— Maria Mitchell

The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he…

— Neil Gaiman

As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the…

— Piers Anthony

“Do not get glum when you are no longer understood, little book. Do not curse your fate. Do not reach up from…

— Joanna Russ

And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party…

— Caitlin Moran

I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen…

— Gary Shteyngart

Every TV show I've ever made, every game I've ever built, and every book I've ever published has had the common thread…

— Elan Lee

“O: The Homelander series is one of the best group of books for middle aged teens looking for an action/adventure book. The…

— Jack Shunkwiler

Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in…

— Debra Monroe

A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in…

— Bertrand Russell

“Let me note, finally, that most of the research for this book was done in the libraries of Harvard University, the size…

— Alfie Kohn

“...if you can change the fate of a character you read out of a book by adding new words to his story,…

— Cornelia Funke

Nowhere in the Word of God is there any text or passage or line that can be twisted or tortured into teaching…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the…

— Joan Didion

“...A well-written, well-organized book packages the author's brain. It is the purest, richest, most complete way to take what's inside one person's…

— Kevin Maney

I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.

— Terence McKenna

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

— Irving Stone

Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else.

— Robert Kirkman

Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.

— Anthony Trollope

“Read a book then forget the names of characters in it except lead character.”

— Hibis

Whatever good works ye send on before [death]... ye shall find with God.

— Elijah Muhammad

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

— Herb Brooks

In 2011, I earned a Tony nomination for my role in 'The Book of Mormon.'

— Andrew Rannells

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

— Roger Ebert

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

— Dave Eggers

“This is a book about notable achievements made while dead.”

— Mary Roach

“Your status has changed. Your Name is changed! You are a new creation.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Well, there's nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book.

— Chris Klein

“It was, she said, the way the book had revealed an inherent narcissism in its recipients.”

— Jon Ronson

I have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say.

— Andrew Breitbart

When you go out to Hollywood, it's like, "Here's the book. It is what it is. It'll always stay the same."

— James Patterson