Book Quotes · Page 235

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

— John Ruskin

I read a lot of books; I am a lazy person when I don't work!

— Catherine Tresa

I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.

— Judy Blume

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

— Monica Ali

Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!

— Keegan Allen

There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom.

— Herbert Hoover

I like in books when we start the book and you really don't know how it's going to turn out.

— Cassandra Clare

“The erotic pleasure was starting to take on a life of its own for all three”

— Bat Maxwell

You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and…

— John Kricfalusi

Stepping into the "shoes" of someone's life other than my own, great movies such as 'Cinema Paradiso,' scenic landscapes, the work of…

— Reggie Lee

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I believe in any kid's ability to read any book and form their own judgements. It's the job of a parent to…

— Sherman Alexie

Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books…

— Anthony Burgess

Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I…

— Jonathan Lethem

I think books are just a great ticket to get you outside of yourself. You can not be you for a second…

— Dan Mangan

I can’t explain how it is I keep having new ideas. But one book inevitably follows another. It is my way of…

— Virginia Hamilton

“At your next book club meeting, picture me sitting quietly in the corner, taking notes on your preferences. Imagine the next day…

— G.R. Reader

I am a Christian resident of New York City. I simply read things the other Manhattanites read (NY Times, New Yorker magazine,…

— Timothy Keller

I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled…

— William Blake

I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It was the first grown-up…

— Glen Duncan

He looked at the book, took my name, and consulted his records. Then he informed me I had been lost at sea…

— Elizabeth Kenny

I remember as a young child, during one of my frequent trips to the local library, spending hours looking at book after…

— Daniel Tammet

I managed to get my copy of Ulysses through safely this time. I rather wish I had never read it. It gives…

— George Orwell

[Madness] happened so frequently. I think what I was most maddest about - and it's in the book [Speaking Freely: A Memoir]…

— Nat Hentoff

Most people remember the ending of the book more than the beginning and the middle.

— Bernard Hopkins

“If you need to force yourself to put a book down to breathe, you know it's a good one ;)”

— H.A. Kotys

I read the books, get some, Listen to others, get little but what i get the most is to sit and think.

— Khem Veasna

When I was in school, shop class was where the kids that weren't good in anything to do with books went.

— Jamie Hyneman

“All books are butterflies, having once lived the life of a caterpillar.”

— Suzanne Brandyn

“Any book without a mistake in it has had too much money spent on it.”

— William Collins

A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.

— Patrick Ness

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Not everybody can do the comic book adaptation thing and make it believable. It is challenging.

— Wesley Snipes

“This book is a story, and like all stories, it should be taken with a grain of salt.”

— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.

— Elmore Leonard

“Everything we encounter can have a positive influence in shaping our life when we adopt a lens of Gratitude.”

— The Letters Of Gratitude

I worked at a Books-a-Million in Louisville for several years.

— Julie Kagawa

My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story,

— Carl Hiaasen

I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike

— Ann M. Martin

I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant.

— Thom Yorke