Book Quotes · Page 224

“... a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work…”

— Benjamin Franklin

In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.

— Danica Patrick

My daughter wrote a book called 'Kelly Tough' when she was 19 years old. It's a must-read.

— Jim Kelly

One book is equal to ten friends, but one friend is equal to a library...so, take care of me..:P

— Asli

It seems like they make every comic book into a film. 'Watchmen' is my favorite of all time.

— William Moseley

“You may not attain the highest height with one leap but my dear; you will reach your destination.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Someday, I'll write a book about what I've been through.

— Alvaro Morata

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

— Lloyd Alexander

In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people…

— Ruth Benedict

The bible is not a religious experience for me. This book bundles together the entire culture of Judaism: our language, our history,…

— Tommy Lapid

Certain teachers have tremendous amounts of experience. They are articulate, and they give wonderful discourse. But at some point along the road,…

— Sakyong Mipham

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how…

— Eric Carle

You won't find a publisher until you have written the book and you won't find the time till you sit down, stay…

— Carol Drinkwater

If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only…

— Anthony Doerr

Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about…

— Anonymous

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh…

— Samuel Johnson

For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

For the last 15 years that I have been performing, all I ever wanted to do was transcend poetry to the world.…

— Lemon Andersen

I believe that if we could see the chapters that are missing from the book [The Autobiography of Malcolm X], we would…

— Manning Marable

The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full stop, beyond its internal…

— Michel Foucault

With 'Ilustrado,' I set out to change the way we read literature, and I think I failed spectacularly. In fact, I know…

— Miguel Syjuco

“The room was as big as the Duke of Pardloe's library and had at least as many books, and yet the feeling…

— Diana Gabaldon

Putting out a book is absolutely a lesson in vulnerability because it doesn't matter how much of an audience you have. Some…

— Luvvie Ajayi

We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends;…

— Anonymous

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.

— Steve Earle

I always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing.

— Paul G. Tremblay

“You can travel the world and never leave your chair when you read a book.”

— Sherry K. Plumer

“At the sight of a good book, you just can't walk away but to claim and read it.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird.

— Gemma Files

Great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains.

— William Benton Clulow

I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.

— Lee Child

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

— Jim Harrison

All books are judged by their covers until they are read.

— Maryrose Wood

Africa? A book one thumbs Listlessly, till slumber comes.

— Countee Cullen

“Who would have thought you could see the future by reading a book about the past?”

— Damien Echols

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

— George Crabbe

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

— Bruce Jackson

One of my favorite times was sitting reading quote books, which I did for hours on end.

— Hillary Clinton

Books have always been really important to me; they're my saving grace.

— Molly Ringwald