Book Quotes · Page 251

I write the books I want to read. I'm interested in seeing what happens with this book in the marketplace.

— Teddy Wayne

A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.

— Margaret Wise Brown

I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.

— David Mitchell

“A word can change a mind, a sentence can change a life and a book can change the world.”

— Tom Kane

“Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.”

— Annie Dillard

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.

— Anonymous

Life is like a book, but only you can choose what it's about.

— Brielle Amos

He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.

— Walter Savage Landor

Whenever I see interesting names, I jot them down. I've found them in lots of different places: on the news, in the…

— Cassandra Clare

An e-book is not a physical book. That point might seem trite until you stop for a moment to think how much…

— Maria Konnikova

When I sit in my bedroom with a book and a bottle of vodka, I do it because I'm sad, not because…

— Richey Edwards

I carry this little book around everywhere. It's like my journal, but also like ideas and drawings and everything.

— Iman Vellani

“Books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always left hungry.”

— Pamela Paul

“A woman that is patient has the ability to endure provocation, pain, annoyance etc, with much calm and strength.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the…

— David Heyman

If I'm really rolling with a short story, I work on it everywhere and end up with a finished draft in a…

— Laura van den Berg

Once upon a time, an editor could try out one or two wacky books, knowing full well that their list would counterbalance…

— Andrew Latimer

When I write a book, I put everything I have into it; so the more I have, the more the books become.…

— Matthew Woodring Stover

A tell-all book by David Axelrod, one of President Obama's former strategists, reveals that Obama chose Joe Biden as his VP because…

— Jimmy Fallon

“quite the right way to begin a book. And, besides, am I a gentleman? What is a gentleman? I don't quite know,…

— H. Rider Haggard

We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all…

— William Hazlitt

I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became…

— Hari Kunzru

Joel Chandler Harris, who created a multi billion dollar industry, everything from his books, to Disney's "Song of the South" based upon…

— Ishmael Reed

We have the same genetic code for all living creatures. We have a large number of genes that are manifestly the same,…

— Richard Dawkins

I still try to make the "next" book my "best" book. I want to grip and move you in unexpected ways.

— Harlan Coben

...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.

— Jane Austen

There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.

— Christian Rudder

I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.

— David Sedaris

I do like Pat Conroy, and 'The Great Santini' is an iconic book.

— Douglas Brunt

“If we know the books located at the bedside, we know much about the man.”

— Douglas L. Callister

I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.

— Kellan Lutz

There's more to life than books, you know. But not much more.

— Anonymous

I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five…

— Albert Einstein

Role models are fine. Roll models are better. Anyone who can do a forward roll is pretty awesome in my book.

— Connor Ripley

I’m waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh’s pharmacist writes a book.

— Carl Hiaasen

Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.

— Douglas Adams

But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.

— Anonymous

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“And thank you for not putting it in your book. And fuck you for not putting it in your book.”

— Lynn Coady

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

— H. L. Mencken