Book Quotes · Page 248

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

— William Temple

Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out.

— Thomas Lansing Masson

I got lucky, and the first book, 'The Black Echo,' got published.

— Michael Connelly

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

— Ernest Hemingway

“I don't believe books have endings. Not the well written ones anyway...”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

The latest spin on the Marvel comic-book hero delivers the popcorn goods.

— Peter Travers

I believe if you've written a book, you have to stand up and say, 'Guys, buy the book.'

— Ravi Subramanian

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

— Anonymous

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I…

— Kate DiCamillo

“Anyone who has read a lot can tell you that the best ideas you take from a certain book often have nothing…

— Mark Manson

If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“These empty pages are your future, soon to become your past. T will read the most personal tale you shall ever find…

— Anonymous

Apple doesn't need to maximize book sales. It simply needs to keep publishers happy enough to maintain an impressive-sounding inventory of titles…

— Virginia Postrel

“Being a writer, I'd never judged a book by its cover, but I suppose that the way a book carried itself gave…

— Lindsay Marene Ordone

A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear…

— Martin Luther

The one test I have for every completed book is if I feel head over heels in love with the hero. If…

— Kresley Cole

There were several points where I would kind of turn to the book and say, "Get thee behind me." I don't think…

— George Saunders

Breakfast is the best time for me to figure out what my kids are doing. Right after you wake them up at…

— Mario Batali

If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Self-doubt is common, but when it impedes you from attaining your goals it’s time to take action. This book shows you how…

— Lois P Frankel

There are 500 reasons I write for children… Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics… They…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode…

— Abraham Lincoln

[In the moment of reading writer and reader] are both briefly their best selves, or at least better selves. A flawed human…

— George Saunders

The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy…

— Theodore Parker

I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.

— Maurice Sendak

I'm going to book-and-author dinners, and I'm the author!

— William Lashner

I saw a picture of Max Schreck as Count Orlok in a book in my elementary school and I lost my mind.

— Robert Eggers

“Our library isn't very extensive, but every book in it is a friend.”

— L.M. Montgomery

Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.

— Paulo Coelho

But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.

— David Mitchell

Spending time with a book is much more than just learning to read.

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

— Jeanette Winterson

“I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

— Gary D. Schmidt

“will you be the one reading the book or writing the book”

— Abe

All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

— Carl Sandburg

You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.

— Matthew Vaughn

A lot of books are sold and given away as presents. But who actually reads and enjoy reading?

— John Gimlette

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

— Anonymous

You meet people, and you realize that you can never judge a book by its cover.

— Joey Jordison