Book Quotes · Page 247

No CEO examining books today understands what the hell is going on.

— Charlie Munger

In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder." We are the keepers of tradition.

— Zygmunt Bauman

My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.

— James MacArthur

Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery.

— Samuel Johnson

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

— Charles Frazier

There are books that inspired me the first time round and re-reading them just reignites that.

— Edith Bowman

I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.

— George Payne Rainsford James

As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.

— A. Edward Newton

The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about…

— Aidan Chambers

Writing is alone, but I don't think it's lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they're writing their book, and…

— Margaret Atwood

At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours…

— Tracy Kidder

It's definitely scary to follow a book that's been turned into a Netflix series and found as much success as Girlboss did.

— Sophia Amoruso

I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn't captured by books very often. It was captured more often…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

'Catcher In The Rye' was my favorite book, honestly. I read it when I was thirteen, and the book was a bit…

— Alex Wolff

A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that…

— Vivienne Westwood

What terrifies me is that I might somehow endorse that view so people think they don't have to read books anymore.

— Steve Coogan

The book is an experience that allows you to witness your feelings without having to surrender to them, to succumb to them,…

— Michael Silverblatt

You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a…

— Lloyd Jones

What I intend to do is uphold a standard of intellectual seriousness on the right. [These books] should be written in a…

— Adam Bellow

There are so many times in my life when I wish I had the power to destroy anyone who would threaten or…

— Bao Phi

I never plan ahead, with the exception of the Amber books which had to proceed in sequence. But I don't really like…

— Roger Zelazny

What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows…

— Gustave Flaubert

I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the…

— Warren Buffett

My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys.…

— Richard Russo

If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books.

— John Lancaster Spalding

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.

— Anthony Storr

“A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.

— Anonymous

On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.

— Ramon Rodriguez

Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.

— Nick Hornby

Through the study of books one seeks God; by meditation one finds him.

— Pio of Pietrelcina

If I was reading a book about a comedian, I wouldn't really care too much about their childhood.

— Lee Mack

Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I think [Albert] Camus felt very solitary. You can see it in all his books.

— Catherine Camus

Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.

— Eugene Field

A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section.

— Steve Maraboli

I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.

— Watty Piper

I was a terrible student. For me, to take a book home was a trial.

— Vladimir Horowitz

I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings.

— Taiye Selasi

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

— Anonymous