Book Quotes · Page 223

“I don’t know how [books] accumulate like that. They’re part rabbit, I think.”

— Beatriz Williams

It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think.

— Robert McCloskey

Books make great gifts because they can unveil hidden secrets.

— Dan Brown

The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.

— Anderson Cooper

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

— Jean de la Bruyere

She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.

— James J. Kilpatrick

I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.

— Erin Morgenstern

At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I’m a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath,…

— Rachel Kushner

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

— Harrison Ford

Compared to Uber, we have a much local business model. We allow the customers to pay in cash as well as use…

— Bhavish Aggarwal

Some people are worried about the future of comics and some people are busy building it. That latter group are my heroes.

— Gail Simone

If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in…

— Jeremy Sisto

Be Careful Of Books. Be Careful With Books. Be Careful Or One Can Become A Weapon-Wielder. Be Careful Or One Can Become…

— Cai Guo-Qiang

One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like…

— Blake Mycoskie

Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

One day, I found my dad's dressing-gown in an old suitcase, and it transported me back to when I was five and…

— Anthony Browne

With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to…

— David McCullough

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make,…

— Oscar Wilde

I love the Internet, but it's hard not to get lost in it. It's not like a book where you start and…

— Jarvis Cocker

Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment.…

— Colson Whitehead

I never think of my work as writing for a young audience, frankly, because I think it risks talking 'down' to them.…

— Soman Chainani

I wanted to write a book that showed how the subjectification of the "the murderer" has changed little in over a hundred…

— Richard Marshall

Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a…

— Neil Postman

Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.

— Fernando Pessoa

I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.

— Daniel Clowes

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

— Malcolm X

“And just because I've written this book, don't think I've changed. I'm like I was back then, really.”

— Ryū Murakami

I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner…

— Wilbur Smith

“The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I’m a hopeless romantic. Any book with a love story in it is more likely to grab my attention.”

— Sierra Abrams

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

— William Osler

So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.

— Lois Lowry

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

— Anonymous

“A series of books is really one book separated into several.”

— Maribel Pagan

Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.

— Terry Pratchett

“Step inside your favorite storybook and become lost in a journey only your imagination can envision.”

— K. Lamb

Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.

— Tama Janowitz

I like books that are funny, but that aren't trying to be funny. I like situational humor.

— Shiloh Fernandez

“There was something about a book that inspired dedication and a swelling desire to possess it.”

— Kate Morton