Book Quotes · Page 233

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

— Vera Nazarian

Any kids out there, don't base your homework on 'Merlin.' Just enjoy it and then read the books.

— Colin Morgan

You don't look up truthiness in a book, you look it up in your gut.

— Stephen Colbert

If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.

— Natalie Goldberg

Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.

— Hector Hugh Munro

I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

— Steven Tyler

“The only bad book was a book that didn't have any pages in it.”

— Chelsea M. Cameron

“There was a birthday present waiting to be read, a boxed set of the Narnia books, which I took upstairs. I lay…

— Neil Gaiman

In 2006, I published my first novel, 'In the Country of Men.' The publication of the book gave me a bigger platform…

— Hisham Matar

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and…

— Anita Diament

Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?

— Walter Dean Myers

One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of…

— William Winwood Reade

I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my…

— Nikki Grimes

On the whole, and this comment can get me in a lot of trouble, I find that retailers in the comic book…

— Rob Walton

God bless Interlibrary Loan. I pay a lot of library fines. In the case of 'A Single Shard,' I was using books…

— Linda Sue Park

an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the…

— Mark Twain

I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything…

— Frances Mayes

Among other things, [books by Bruce Doyle III and Mike Hernacki] explain the importance of the "winning attitude" I have been urged…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive,…

— Tabatha Coffey

A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different…

— Jane Yolen

In 1916, when Johnny Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my studio at the south end of the town at five o'clock…

— George Grosz

“Author's Warning If you're buying this book as a gift for your grandma or a kid, you should be aware that it…

— Christopher moore

I feel lucky I didn't become that newspaper cartoonist I wanted to be because in the U.S. so many newspapers have suffered…

— Jeff Kinney

Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies.

— John Updike

As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.

— Richard Flanagan

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.

— Allen Ginsberg

“God is the only book that can never be touched, open and seen.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

— Christopher Morley

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

— Alison Bechdel

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

— Hilary Mantel

I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.

— Lance Bass

Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.

— Leonard Ravenhill

My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

— Thomas Hood

A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.

— Alyson Richman

“Believing God isn’t a book, however. It’s not a Bible study either. It’s a lifestyle.”

— Beth Moore

Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.

— L. M. Boyd

Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible.

— Thomas Paine

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

— Haruki Murakami