Book Quotes · Page 252

“You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Books are fun and your genre can help describe you love who you are and respect the title.

— BBL

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.

— Scott Westerfeld

a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )

— Charles Bukowski

When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.

— Josh Gad

Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.

— Gabby Douglas

I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book.

— Scott Turow

“Thank God for books, for validating your feelings, and letting you know you’re not alone.”

— Paula Gruben

What's interesting about 'The Brave and Bold #85' is it's a book in which I re-created, or created, Green Arrow.

— Neal Adams

“The danger of prolonged despair is its tendency to cloud the gift of a new beginning that every tomorrow offers. --Anissa's Redemption”

— Zack Love

Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book…

— Robert Littell

“There was nothing better than the feel of a book in your hand, listening to the crinkling sounds as you turned its…

— Astrid Yrigollen

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

— Alberto Manguel

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly…

— Elbert Hubbard

If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is…

— Miyamoto Musashi

I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud…

— Jacqueline Wilson

Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book,…

— Gregory Orr

We never like to miss an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of our life. That's why I never like to have…

— Joel Osteen

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new…

— Libba Bray

Too many writers think that all you need to do is write well-but that's only part of what a good book is.…

— Nicholas Sparks

I never imagined when I wrote my first book on Strauss that the unscrupulous elite that he elevates would ever come so…

— Shadia Drury

Tree It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house. Even in this one lifetime, you will have…

— Jane Hirshfield

“They were readers for whom literature was a drug, each complex plot line delivering a new high, suspending them above reality, allowing…

— Gloria Goldreich

In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event.

— Laura Lippman

It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

If we expose kids to books and art, nothing but good can come from it.

— Kevin Henkes

I get so annoyed by famous people who have not actually written the books they slap their names on.

— Anderson Cooper

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

— Dan Savage

“never judge a book by its cover,whats in it is a way of life.”

— Maceo Mays

When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read.

— John Philip Kemble

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

— Anonymous

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

— Hermann Hesse

Don't back to a book, if you already know how its going to end

— Anonymous

“If you have a book, and an imagination, you can never find yourself alone. Ever.”

— William Fritz

'Wingnuts' is the first book bearing the imprint of Beast Books.

— Tina Brown

I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I've been a big music guy for a long time and a lot of my books have music in them so I…

— Charles Soule

I hate to tell you this, but I did not know what the National Book Award was when I got the call.

— Katherine Dunn

“Books took away the pain and disappointment, they always did. Books closed bad doors and opened good ones.”

— Anonymous