Book Quotes · Page 245

As a comic book fan, I've seen all the comic book movies.

— Ruben Fleischer

I read a lot of books for information, like doctor books, spy books. . . .

— William S. Burroughs

Whenever I pick up a book I think, "Tell me something I don't know."

— Stef Penney

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

— Stephan Jenkins

You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.

— Carmen Agra Deedy

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

— Italo Calvino

My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.

— Louisa May Alcott

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

— Christopher Morley

This is the first teaching of the Knights: You will erase everything you had written in the book of your life up…

— Paulo Coelho

I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about?…

— Dan Brown

Nothing, it appears to me, is of greater value in a man than the power of judgment; and the man who has…

— Pietro Aretino

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one…

— Karen Thompson Walker

Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being…

— Harold Bloom

Herman Cain was unaware that China is a nuclear power. And I said to myself, 'Hey, Herman, how about making an unwanted…

— David Letterman

Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place…

— Fisher Ames

Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

The interval, then, between the dates of original composition and the earliest extant evidence becomes so small as to be in fact,…

— Frederic G. Kenyon

My own experience of growing up as a Roman Catholic in Scotland has led me to fear independence in Scotland. The possibility…

— George Galloway

“The book was rife with abstract diagrams that blurred the boundaries between art, mathematics, and pornography. Triangles of stacked numbers, columns of…

— Douglas Wynne

Do yourself and your family a favor: Decide right now that you will write a self-help book someday. I'm serious. A self-help…

— Brendon Burchard

The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I…

— Shmuel Yosef Agnon

I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My…

— Ernest Gellner

The moment I finish 'any' book, my feels are pretty much the same. Goes a little something like this: It's done? Whimper.…

— Gena Showalter

After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to…

— Charles Nodier

Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.

— Charles Lamb

I learned early on that 'Billy on the Street' is a great lesson in 'Don't judge a book by its cover.'

— Billy Eichner

How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?

— Joseph Joubert

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

— Walter Benjamin

We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.

— Hansie Cronje

“Only a book is enough to change the course of your life.”

— Aman Jassal

“A good friend of mine once said, "I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child.”

— Marion Dane Bauer

I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths.

— David S. Goyer

Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

— Ernest Hemingway

I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.

— Thomas Perry

If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.

— Danny Boyle

“A child's imagination can be found in the heart of a good book.”

— K. Lamb

Whenever one writes a book one should have a notional reader in mind.

— Sadakat Kadri

Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks

— Meg Cabot

There are so many elements and nuances from the books that are very hard to tell in the length of a movie.

— Jade Hassoune

I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.

— Cindy Sherman