Book Quotes · Page 228

We used to say a movie could never come close to a book, but no one reads books anymore.

— Rose Troche

Just because you started off one way don't mean the ending of the book has to be the way you started.

— Bernard Hopkins

As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book."

— Daniel Clowes

Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.

— William Shakespeare

I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.

— Jeanette Winterson

Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.

— Ellen Kushner

Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence.

— Richard Baxter

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

— Anonymous

This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than…

— Ted Kooser

We're sort of putting a slightly different spin on Steve Rogers. He's a guy that wants to serve his country, but he's…

— Joe Johnston

I read in a book that a man called Christ went about doing good. It is very disconcerting to me that I…

— Toyohiko Kagawa

Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Seriously, I am a terrible plotter when it comes to my novels. Terrible. I love to kind of feel my way into…

— Rebecca Serle

My parents used books as bribes: if I got straight A's on my report card, they would buy me one book. This…

— Celeste Ng

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or…

— Margaret Atwood

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

— Charles Lamb

I do feel like, especially nowadays, we are inundated with the message that, 'Oh my God, you aren't making your own clothes?…

— Miriam Shor

I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, "Young man, ply your book diligently now,…

— Samuel Johnson

Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our…

— Lloyd Alexander

I think all kids feel that their lives are tough, and that they've, been given an unfair shake for one reason or…

— David Small

“As she felt his fangs against her neck, she was in another world. There was screaming. A woman was somewhere in agony.…

— Dawn Bonney-Heath

Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests.…

— Walter Dean Myers

I think 'Comic Book: The Movie' is the apex of my career in terms of making a personal statement that has significance…

— Mark Hamill

People can take your name and write a book about you and they make money off of it. How is the public…

— Diana Ross

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

— Andy Rooney

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

— Horace

I've read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women.

— Hill Harper

If 'Emotions in Motion' comes out right, I can write the book on the formula rock star.

— Billy Squier

“Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state.”

— Matt Haig

In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I never really know the title of a book until it's finished.

— Mary Wesley

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

— Judy Blume

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

— Gillian Cross

Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.

— Mark Z. Danielewski

“John Bogle wrote the best “business” (LIFE!) book I’ve read in years. The (BRILLIANT!) title: Enough.”

— Tom Peters

“A responsible woman sees and accepts only the best in a given situation.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

— Bertrand Russell

I like the idea that when a guy comes over to the house, I get to say I wrote the book.

— Greg Behrendt

I believe in books. I believe more in 'cross-media' - how characters are adapting across mediums.

— Bing Gordon

The rhema is regarded as a more immediate word from God which we do not find in the 66 books of the Bible.

— C. Wagner