Book Quotes · Page 253

Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.

— Laura Matilda Towne

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

— Edward Albee

History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.

— Holbrook Jackson

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

— Gail Carson Levine

It's weird - sort of not terribly wise - to take a book that was successful and then change its cover.

— Augusten Burroughs

“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ”

— Agatha Christie

For the size of it, a check book is about the greatest convenience I know of.

— Myrtle Reed

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I was in such a creative groove after turning in my last book (The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a…

— Andy Cohen

There are as many strata at different levels of life as there are leaves in a book. When on the higher levels…

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm a 'bound book' kind of girl. I have a Kindle, and I enjoy it for some things, like convenience or instant…

— Lisa Unger

My mom was big on education, big on reading, so she was always pushing books on me: 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X,'…

— Lecrae

I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures…

— T. S. Eliot

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Id always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get…

— Donald Ray Pollock

Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.

— Mary Karr

Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the…

— C. S. Lewis

It is amazing how little effort most people make to improve control of their attention. If reading a book seems too difficult,…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Mr. Fresh looked up. "The book says if we don't do our jobs everything could go dark, become like the Underworld. I…

— Christopher Moore

I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read,…

— Ann Hood

I couldn't imagine any other way of living, outside of books, outside my work. Which doesn't mean I am not interested in…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my…

— Pete Hamill

A lot of films that have been adapted from books stop serving you because they become different. I mean, they are different…

— Andrea Riseborough

“Where's your church?" "We're standing in it." "But this is a bookstore and it's a Friday." "Yes, but you might also choose…

— Forrest Church

Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.

— Brandon Sanderson

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be…

— William Godwin

All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.

— Kate DiCamillo

The books all say that barracuda rarely eat people, but very few barracuda can read.

— Dave Barry

I'm uncomfortable trying to rush change of perception, except to the extent that I'm going to write a book.

— George W. Bush

We always wanted to do a children's book of some form or another.

— Nancy Wilson

“He is holding a book. Inside the book is the Universe.”

— Neil Gaiman

Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“This is for all you kids out there watching TV, when you should go open a book. Haha.”

— Blake Lewis

Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading.

— Stephen D. Krashen

Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.

— Siri Hustvedt

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

— Alberto Manguel

The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

— David Sedaris

“A writer should be on a quest to get better and better with each book. May it be a never-ending quest.”

— Mark Rubinstein

I never know if a book is crazy or not. There's that fear - this is the one that will end it…

— Daniel Clowes