Book Quotes · Page 222

You could start a small fire... with [photo] books I hate, and use that light to look at mine.

— John Gossage

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

— Jane Hamilton

It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

— James Patterson

There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books.

— E. Nesbit

I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

— Alice Walker

I know every trick in the book, in terms of schemes and fraud.

— Lori Lightfoot

To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you're not

— Jim Rohn

A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

— Chip Kidd

“There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, becasuse you realize there is…

— Anonymous

I said once that if they gave me enough money to read the phone book, I'd do it. I live in a…

— Anthony Hopkins

Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics…

— Grant Morrison

About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be…

— Peter DeFazio

When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. MASTER IT!

— John Piper

You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're…

— Christopher Moore

“Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.”

— Robert Burton

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do…

— Leo Tolstoy

I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of…

— Annie Dillard

I want to do a book called 'Shopping and Cooking for One with Tony Danza,' where I will show you how to…

— Tony Danza

“It is a place of fine weather, and this is a book of fine weather, a book written in Spring. I will…

— Stella Benson

“One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. A half-remembered line is echoed by another for reasons…

— Alberto Manguel

There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is…

— George Bernard Shaw

While life is meant to test, challenge, and strengthen us, if we are attempting to negotiate the twists and turns and ups…

— Sheri L. Dew

I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing…

— Franz Wright

Pollio, who values nothing that's within, Buys books as men hunt Beavers, -- for their Skin.

— Benjamin Franklin

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

— Gail Carson Levine

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

— Antonia Fraser

Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.

— William Shakespeare

You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.

— Bobby Fischer

Bite me." -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.

— Anonymous

“People aren't like books. You can't set them on a shelf and expect them to stay there.”

— Bailey Nadeen

“Your book has a way of telling me what I'm feeling before I even feel it”

— John Green

A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.

— Markus Zusak

A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

— Mark Twain

“The only thing better than a good book is a really good book!”

— James McLaughlin

But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9,

— Rafael Sabatini

My favorite is always the book that I'm currently reading.

— Joe Lhota

I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.

— Jo Brand

“Life is a book and you are its author. You detemine its plot and pace and you--only you--turn its pages.”

— Beth Mende Conny