Book Quotes · Page 250

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

— Annie Dillard

At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books.

— Frederick Lenz

If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.

— Anonymous

The Internet's impact is immense. My students can't imagine ever paying for a book.

— Edmund White

It ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books.

— Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

— Thomas Carlyle

I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.

— Payne Stewart

“Read on for a sneak preview of Blood Past, book two in the Warriors of Ankh series…”

— Anonymous

The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And…

— Alexander Pope

Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The first thing I do when I book a fight is I go to the Internet and I print out a picture…

— Chris Weidman

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

When I start a book, I write a minimum of five pages every day, except weekends. If I'm going on a ski…

— Elizabeth George

The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning…

— Peter Mayle

The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. I…

— Philip Pullman

One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be…

— Sara Zarr

Of course, I'm being rude. I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particular piece of it.…

— Markus Zusak

Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human…

— Cornelia Funke

“My sort wants the book in its entirety. We need to touch it, to examine the weight of its paper and the…

— Pamela Paul

I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave…

— Anthony Browne

The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin' pocket books from old ladies I told him, "Give up the dough,…

— Big L

“The structure of the book is the same as the basic investment process that we advocate: Develop a set of investing principles,…

— Pat Dorsey

“You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what…

— Timothy J. Keller

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

— Larry Elder

The images from the book you make in your head are always going to be the best images.

— Rick Riordan

There are books which one should not attempt before having passed the age of forty.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.

— David Guterson

You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to…

— Maxwell Perkins

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

— Annie Dillard

The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints.

— David Augsburger

Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.

— Karin Slaughter

“She was never without a good book close by, not even when she was lying in bed with nothing on her”

— Joseph Heller

Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.

— David McCullough

For me, the optimum circumstances for writing a book are those of stultifying routine.

— Lisa Jewell

It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.

— Wilbur Smith

“There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.”

— Cormac McCarthy

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.

— Philip Roth

A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.

— Joseph Roth

“Another way of remaining in intimacy with God is by remaining in His presence.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu