Book Quotes · Page 240

Next to the Bible, nature is to be our great lesson book.

— Ellen G. White

Looks can be deceiving. NEVER judge a book by it's cover.

— Anonymous

The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.

— Joseph Brodsky

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

— Walter Bagehot

Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.

— Anonymous

“If one were happy, then one might stay in with a book, say, and not go out hunting for fun”

— Kathleen Rooney

“No matter how bleak, there is still chance of love in hatred but none in indifference”

— Kiran Joshi

I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most.

— Neil Patrick Harris

I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

— Esther Meynell

There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.

— Judy Blume

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times, and their parents are going to have…

— Mark Haddon

If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and…

— John Pilger

I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.

— John Scott

I've heard rumors that the Petersons are writing a book. It will be very interesting to see what they have to say,…

— Catherine Crier

I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that…

— Nick Cave

“Do you ever hide books you've read over and over again because you're so sick of them?' 'Oh, definitely. When they ask…

— Gina Sheridan

(I)f France's righteous bloviating against war makes them your Dashboard Saint of International Integrity, it's either because you are sand-poundingly ignorant of…

— Jonah Goldberg

I always have a few ideas that are percolating, and then after I've finished a book and it's a year later, and…

— Colson Whitehead

You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, when I read…

— Junot Diaz

You spend all this time inside, alone, writing. And then it becomes about travel and new places and new people. And I…

— Garance Dore

“​Do get a copy of this book you can keep. If you use it right, it’ll be covered in dirt and blood…

— James Breakwell

My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows,…

— Poppy Delevingne

The visual world has blown up, the world of writing has blown up; there's so much text online. Anyone and everyone can…

— Laurie Simmons

I first heard of Ulver reading the 'Lords of Chaos' book.

— Matt Skiba

“What was that book you were obsessed with? That one with the fallen angel named Patch?”

— Shannon Guymon

The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.

— Allan Bloom

“The answer to all of life's problems are out there somewhere its just a question of finding the right book”

— Tammy Blackwell

No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.

— Marian Wright Edelman

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen.”

— Anonymous

“I’d like the reading of this book to leave you with the impression that you’ve traversed a sensual nightmare.”

— Fernando Pessoa

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.

— Marina Tsvetaeva

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

— Robert Crais

When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.

— Anne Enright

I don't leave the house without a book, and I never watch television without one, either.

— Adriana Trigiani

The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense.

— John Alfred Langford

“this was a book about working out who you were. About identity, constant and threatened.”

— Lewis Carroll

“The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people’s mistakes than our own.”

— Daniel Kahneman

Life isn't a book, so stop waiting for someone to write you a happy ending.

— Anonymous