Book Quotes · Page 236

I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!

— Agnes Varda

Books are peculiar. When you write one, you also have to find things that make headlines.

— Luca Toni

When I sit and read my book and I'm all cosy, it takes me to another place.

— Georgia Toffolo

“I'm writing a new book called 'Ventroliquism for Dummies'.”

— Ron Moore

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

— Frederik Pohl

“Whoever reads and listens to this book ethics, he never faces defeat even from Indra”

— Vishnu Sharma

I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.

— Ville Valo

Every book takes you to the terror, that terrible place of possible failure.

— Sandra Cisneros

I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages…

— Frank Oz

And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost…

— Helene Hanff

I have trouble with some books because I'm so much in agreement with them I'd rather just sit in the grass myself.

— Mary Oliver

Every book is vulnerable, and every book is nerve-wracking, but I've never been both so excited and terrified to have a book…

— Nathan Englander

I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and…

— Annie Dillard

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest…

— E. B. White

I'm quite nosy. Somebody will be reading a book on a train, and I'll go: 'How is it? Is it any good?'…

— Ophelia Lovibond

Despite wanting to work in publishing, I was a publisher's worst nightmare: I rarely bought new books. So my goal was to…

— Andrew Latimer

“Before unearthing this letter, I had questioned myself about the ways in which a book can be infinite. I could think of…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents…

— Meg Rosoff

I had been self-publishing for a number of years at that stage and selling my books at markets around Melbourne - little…

— Andy Griffiths

“You know a book is well-written when it makes you read it over and over again, and in every time you enjoy…

— Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi

Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures.…

— Ramakrishna

I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if…

— Art Spiegelman

I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.

— Norman MacCaig

Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

— Bono

I think for me, I've battled with a lot of things in my life and there's no rule book on how to…

— Raye

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Life is a game I adore. I just wish someone had given me the rule book sooner.”

— Dane Waters

A lot of people in government don't really read books at all.

— Geoff Mulgan

There are no inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts.

— Terry Pratchett

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

— Marguerite Young

If you only ever read one book in your life ... I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut

— Simon Munnery

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

— James Bryce

Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.

— Seth Godin

When I read it ["Tough Guys Don't Dance"], I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

— Norman Mailer

Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

— Anne Sexton

I've always loved reading, and as a child I used to try desperately to write books like the ones I read.

— Tom Fletcher