Book Quotes · Page 239

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

— Anita Brookner

“Richard Foster’s excellent book Celebration of Discipline”

— Ian Cowley

“Books will give you new ideas to fly and books can be find in the libraries”

— Abid Hussain Library Officer

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

— A. S. Byatt

The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.

— Markus Zusak

Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name.

— Edward Hirsch

Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness.

— Anonymous

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

— William Gibson

Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of 'a fourth book…

— E. L. James

It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and…

— Alice Steinbach

The Koran and Islam is about submission, justice and compassion. All people of the "book" - which means the Torah, Koran and…

— Greg Mortenson

I feel a lot of pressure when I'm writing because I know, you know, if they looked at a synopsis of the…

— Jesmyn Ward

“I intended to make it sound guileless and rather sweet but you will see in it the little blades of social criticism…

— John Steinbeck

Harriet Beecher Stowe thought Uncle Tom's Cabin was written through her by Another Hand, so little did she know what was going…

— Sophy Burnham

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And…

— David McCullough

I was reading books about the Nazi presence not only in Argentina, but all over Latin America, and time and after time…

— Lucia Puenzo

“The book answers questions other people have thought of. I have thought of questions they have not answered. I always thought my…

— Elizabeth Moon

To tell you the truth, I don't edit much at all. Most times, when I have finished the first draft, that's the…

— Per Petterson

“In the library I search for a good book. We have many books, says Mrs. Rose, the librarian, and ALL of them…

— Sally Murphy

But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes…

— Dean Koontz

Children should transcribe favourite passages. --A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed…

— Charlotte Mason

None of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which a person has only to go look up as though we…

— Marcel Proust

“You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life…

— Jim Thompson

Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature,…

— Thomas Browne

Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.

— Remy de Gourmont

My life has been an open book, really. Everybody knows everything about me.

— Rod Stewart

A book is kind because its pages let us know when it is coming to an end.

— Dara Wier

Let's just say that I don't think our show has very much in common with the book any more.

— Kristin Davis

Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.

— Mason Cooley

“This book is visceral like how your small intestine is visceral”

— J.E. Duah

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

— Alexander McQueen

Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.

— Emeril Lagasse

This book (the Bible) is not hard to understand. It's just hard to swallow.

— Steve Lawson

Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it.

— Terry Pratchett

Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.

— David Amram

Read every book, blog, website, whatever, about what you want to be an expert in.

— James Altucher

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books,

— Barbara Park

If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres.

— Tom Robbins

A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.

— Stephen Fry

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way…

— Nora Ephron