Book Quotes · Page 238

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

— Jonathan Swift

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

— Victor Hugo

Feel is not something that you learn in a book. Feel is something that you find as a musician.

— Nishan Panwar

Rejection is nature's way of telling you to write a better book.

— James D. Macdonald

Most of my books have always worked through juxtaposition, jumping through different point of views and time.

— Colson Whitehead

It's not the principles that kill you in the end. It's the books.

— Michael Swanwick

Were I to await perfection, my book would never be finished

— Anonymous

I really miss English. Going into English class and analysing a poem or book, I found that so much fun.

— Ruel

An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after…

— Miranda July

I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne…

— Peter Carey

As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of…

— Nicole Kidman

They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it.

— Paulo Coelho

I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just…

— Leni Zumas

“Girl in the White Dress is my book. It is currently linked to another author's profile. So if you have read the…

— Nikki Walker

I'm scared. I'm excited. I'm ready for whatever happens but I think that fame is what comes along with the territory when…

— Katy Perry

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

— Jay McInerney

You've read half the books in this house? This whole house?" "Well, approximately half." Sticky said. "To be more accurate, I suppose…

— Trenton Lee Stewart

My father's book is about is about a number of things, but about Houdini's rage to not be a failure like his…

— Nicholas Meyer

“I relinquished myself to existence pure and simple, thinking absolutely nothing—as if my mind were merely an echo chamber for the music,…

— Sol Luckman

The beginning [of Lincoln in the Bardo] is strange, and I did a lot of work calibrating that so that a reader…

— George Saunders

The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an…

— Lauren F. Winner

There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean…

— Tom Robbins

I've always had a foot in everything. As a kid, I was active in sports and theater. Now, I'm learning I have…

— Maz Jobrani

For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of…

— Hilary Mantel

“Oh, it doesn't get me. I'm pretty well cloistered, and I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

— Norton Juster

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

— Anne Michaels

One who believes all of a book would be better off without books

— Mencius

Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.

— Horace Walpole

... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

— Dorothy Gilman

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

— John Locke

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

— James Russell Lowell

“To find just the right book at the moment when the soul is hungry for it is a miracle, and not a…

— Jane Steger

Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.

— Hugh Prather

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

— Neil Gaiman

When you adapt a book, you really have to cut it to the essence.

— Dave Eggers

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

— Anthony Powell

“What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations? -Alice in Wonderland”

— Lewis Carroll

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

— Willard Van Orman Quine