Book Quotes · Page 246

Every time I fall in love with a book, I just feel grateful and thrilled to have it in my life.

— Glen Hirshberg

I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

— Paulo Coelho

I turned to books for comfort. (Former First Lady, Laura Bush)

— Laura Bush

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

— Clive Barker

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

— Melissa Gilbert

“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. – Chinese proverb”

— shared by my mom Hazel Lock

I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books.

— Bess Truman

It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.

— Anonymous

A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done.

— Osip Mandelstam

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me…

— Anonymous

Me and Johnny Rotten have been talking about doing a movie of his book, No Irish, No Dogs, No Blacks. We have…

— Penelope Spheeris

READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in…

— Judith Viorst

A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books--…

— Edmund Spenser

I love it when people ask who my influences are... or what my favorite part of my last book was... or the…

— Jennifer Weiner

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a…

— David Attenborough

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was…

— Iain Banks

“Sylvia Day spins a gorgeous adventure in A Touch of Crimson that combines gritty, exciting storytelling with soaring lyricism. Adrian is my…

— Angela Knight

“Aunt Hattie, when you wrote that book, I imagine you were thinking of something radical: the abolition of slavery itself. You were…

— Roxana Robinson

Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams,…

— Jim Jarmusch

The freedom to be someone else entirely and be different versions of something. That's what I loved and I loved watching movies…

— Gwendoline Christie

Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the wise link…

— Khalil Gibran

Romance: That's one of the things that makes Spider-Man really unique, in terms of the comic books. There is a tender, romantic…

— Marc Webb

I think it's a very stark marker of what kind of president we have that, from all available evidence, Donald Trump has…

— Ben H. Winters

After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially…

— D. H. Lawrence

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.

— Brandon Sanderson

“You can't judge a book by its steel-toed combat boots.”

— Lauren Oliver

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

— Laura Miller

Everybody can't be Lil Wayne. Some of us have to pick up a book.

— Tyrann Mathieu

“If books were judged by the bad uses man can put them to, what book has been more misused than the Bible?”

— Jacques Maritain

My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.

— Gianni Versace

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.

— Henry Rollins

“I'm just surprised you can understand it. Is it the picture book edition?”

— Jus Accardo

One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure.”

— Ruskin Bond

I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.

— Anonymous

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

— Shawn Ashmore

“Books are like ice cream; there is a flavor for everyone!”

— K. Lamb

“In the universal library, no book will be an island. It’s all connected.”

— Kevin Kelly

I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.

— Ava Gardner

As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.

— Arnold Bennett