Book Quotes · Page 234

“someone has mixed and shuffled the words of the Book more than was right.”

— Umberto Eco

The dark night was the first book of poetry and the constellations were the poems.

— Chet Raymo

The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed;

— David Gelernter

The books I've written the fastest were the best reviewed and sold the best.

— Michael Connelly

I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth.

— Garth Greenwell

“It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.”

— Anonymous

People say there's a book in everyone but I'm not sure there is. There might be a pamphlet in me.

— Sophie Thompson

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

— Italo Calvino

“To read books seriously is to be staggered by the knowledge of how many more books will remain beyond your ken. It’s…

— James Falllows

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

— Robertson Davies

“Love, I wrote the book on it. Unfortunately, nobody would publish it, so I felt compelled to burn my manuscript.”

— Jarod Kintz

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly…

— Mark Twain

I look at what's going on in our society and what's pissing me off at the moment and I just get my…

— Larry Winget

“Being as Communion is the final book in a trilogy. The two earlier books were The Design Inference and No Free Lunch.”

— William A. Dembski

What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the…

— Cornelia Funke

We cannot give our children what we don't have. Where we are on our journey of living and loving with our whole…

— Brené Brown

Contemplation: I read a lot of books on philosophy and religion, and try to keep always growing in that part of my…

— Kimbra

Let them get at the books themselves, and do not let them be flooded with diluted talk from the lips of their…

— Charlotte Mason

I loved the movie theater so I always saw a lot of movies. And then there was a play, I saw in…

— Ed O'Neill

I recall an incident involving the late George Stigler at a conference in Spain in the 1980s. Hearing that I had written…

— Frank Van Dun

“Lass.' Saga turned away to hide her smile. How like a fairy tale, that word. Rapunzel. A tall tower by a deep…

— Julia Glass

My name is Herondale," the boy said cheerfully. "William Herondale, but everyone calls me Will. Is this really your room? Not very…

— Cassandra Clare

“Jack shook his head. 'Books. What is it with women and books? My sisters were the same. They were always buying books…

— Hazel Osmond

Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting…

— Vernon Howard

There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.

— Noah Hawley

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.

— V. S. Naipaul

I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person.

— Hope Solo

The fastest I've ever done a book is a 112,000-word book in about a month.

— Mercedes Lackey

“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves.”

— Gilbert Highet

When I was younger, I was full of smart things to say about all my books.

— Richard Flanagan

“Who needs a stupid grampa-loving, book-reading, good-smelling boy who I like to talk to?”

— Cecil Castellucci

To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.

— Spyridon Marinatos

Because of what I do, it has to be an open book, but right now this is a book that is being…

— Kevin Hart

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

— V. S. Naipaul

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

— Heinrich Heine

Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.

— Robert Benton

“An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in book

— Anonymous

I heard that Trump said even smelling a book makes him feel tired.

— Wim Wenders

I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods.

— Rocco DiSpirito