Book Quotes · Page 231

“All my books are weird love stories. I love weird love stories.”

— Haruki Murakami

Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.

— William Shakespeare

I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book.

— Evangeline Lilly

Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.

— Martial

Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.

— Terry Goodkind

I've had great writing teachers and mentors and great success with my first book.

— Uzodinma Iweala

It's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places.

— Joan Didion

“Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out!”

— Carmen DeSousa

“There are countless reasons for reading, but when you’re young and uncertain of your identity, of who you may be, one of…

— Michael Cart

Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow…

— Jim Rohn

“There's magic in the unknown; a brooding fertility in the unknowable that can work on the reader's imagination long after a book…

— Claire Wingfield

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

— Frank Iero

I've got four kids, so I plan ahead. I have to book flights far in advance, look at accommodation, where it is,…

— Mo Farah

... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't…

— Cory Doctorow

Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain…

— Christian Slater

“Books are merely translations of our emotions into words that allow us to connect on an almost blood transfusion level.”

— Ksenia Anske

“Brrr, who had never admired books particularly...didn't remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has…

— Gregory Maguire

“I decided each name on each spine was the person who the book had been written for, rather than who had written…

— Nathan Filer

Give me a young man who has kept himself morally clean and has faithfully attended his church meetings. Give me a young…

— Ezra Taft Benson

The funny thing is, nationalism only could have come about in Europe after the invention of printing. You could have this thing…

— Ben Katchor

I've published over 100 books - and that is divided about 50/50 adult and young adult. Lately, I have been writing more…

— Michael Scott

Thanks to the comic book publishers. Batman and Captain Marvel were responsible for my learning to read at least a year before…

— Jack McDevitt

I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the…

— Arthur C. Clarke

I was in a pharmacy and I saw the warnings on the backs of poisonous substances, and I thought, "Well, that's what…

— Daniel Handler

For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.

— Jackie French

Some books makes me want to go adventuring, others make me feel that they have saved me the trouble.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

“Give my book The Sixties Girl a read. You'll love it. You'll laugh, cry and find yoursel wanting more.”

— Victoria Staat

I still feel it's kind of weird to say, 'I'm a comic book writer.'

— Tom King

Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.

— James Ellis

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

— Toby Jones

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

— Bill James

“Of course you can judge a book by its cover; moreover, we are obliged to.”

— Simon Garfield

I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

— Virginia Woolf

He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.

— Tom Perrotta

What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?

— Ray Bradbury

I worked on my book for about seven years and I had no idea it would be so timely when it was…

— T. J. Stiles

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.

— Janice Dickinson

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

— Erica Jong