Book Quotes · Page 227

Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.

— Rene Descartes

I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

— Beatrice Sparks

I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.

— John Gimlette

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.

— Darren Aronofsky

The whole process of getting a book published is just part of the process. The last of the process that I enjo

— Victoria Chang

People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.

— Gordon Bell

She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

— Liam Gallagher

We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.

— Joseph Epstein

It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience

— Ed Harris

They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a…

— Robert B. Parker

I don't know if I've ever derived such an immediate sense of calm and well-being from any book as I did from…

— Lev Grossman

Be prepared for the creation of an intrusive bureaucracy to police the ordinance by examining the books and payroll ledgers of businesses...

— Randy Hamilton

It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything…

— David McCullough

SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS As a lot of people know I'm not the smartest person But what lessons I have learned in…

— George Yurjevich

I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to…

— Jonathan Lethem

I am a big outliner. For my adult book, 'The Visibles,' I did not outline, and it took me two years to…

— Sara Shepard

In fact, books are still being published by the lunatic fringe with the same explanation. In case this book should be read…

— D. V. Ager

Books on prayer are good, but not good enough. As books on cooking are good but hopeless unless there is food to…

— Leonard Ravenhill

Some writers are writing one great, big book and just taking all these different avenues towards it. They might seem on the…

— Chang-Rae Lee

If you find yourself loving any pleasure more than your prayers, any book better than the Bible, any house better than the…

— Thomas Guthrie

Self-help books for those who believe 'You can have it all' often advise, 'Follow your bliss and money will follow.' With the…

— Warren Farrell

In the course of writing one historical book or another, it has happened that I could hardly restrain myself from simply copying…

— Alfred Doblin

“I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“I thought about the people I had met who were in pain but were pretending that everything was fine. And I thought,…

— Julie Schumacher

I only work on my books at nights and at weekends. It is really just like a hobby.

— Jeff Kinney

I highly recommend reading the book 'Confessions Of A Video Vixen.'

— Katherine Ryan

I book myself tight. If I have any time off, I get antsy.

— Skrillex

If you need a guide for your ongoing relationship with God, read Psalms.

— Jim George

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

— Doris Lessing

I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'

— Bart Chilton

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.

— Wilson Mizner

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

— John Lubbock

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

— Fannie Hurst

As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.

— Kate DiCamillo

... and we will test you with evil and with good; and unto us shall ye be brought back.

— Elijah Muhammad

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.

— Sergio Aragones

“What makes a book memorable is the message it etched in the readers’ minds.”

— Tista Ray

Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.

— Lois Wyse

Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.

— William Godwin

Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.

— Randolph Bourne