Book Quotes · Page 254

When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.

— Natalie Imbruglia

It sucks to try and book a tour without the internet, and I'm not even doing it.

— Kyle Parker

...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.

— Robert A. Heinlein

I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.

— Mason Cooley

“distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)”

— Seneca

I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books

— Julian Clary

Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.

— Willa Cather

Joe Wambaugh's a friend. I know him only casually, but I like him a lot. I think he likes my books.

— James Ellroy

When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it…

— R. C. Sproul

Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I think there are a lot of books about thin, attractive people having thin, attractive people's problems. I'm better set up to…

— Jennifer Weiner

Publishing is a business. It's about squeezing every last dollar out of every available source, and the most vulnerable source is the…

— Thomas Hauser

My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts,…

— William Nicholson

In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will…

— Judy Blume

I'm writing the book to a children's musical. I got a note from the producers saying, "Can't you make it campier?" So…

— Charles Busch

It's very hard to be a screenwriter. I remember getting a couple of awards. I got a PEN West award a million…

— Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

One lesson I learned from 'The Monstrumologist' was never to get too attached to your own characters. That's harder in practice than…

— Rick Yancey

Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his…

— Richard Foreman

It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that…

— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

There are innumerable writing problems in an extended work. One book took a little more than six years. You, the writer, change…

— David McCullough

Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the…

— Flann O'Brien

[With "Summer Sisters" the publisher] sent me on a big book tour. And it was the most wonderful professional experience of my…

— Judy Blume

Many, perhaps most, very learned people prefer the company of their books to sitting in a crowd listening to history and art…

— Camille Paglia

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.

— Ann Beattie

I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.

— Henry Rollins

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

— Gabrielle Zevin

No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

— Eugene Field

Sometimes you don't know what a book is about until you are finished with it and you're talking about it.

— Jenny Han

For a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]

— Marcel Proust

I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books.

— Mark Kurlansky

“Nothing can compare to the feeling evoked by turning the page in a great book.”

— Aneta Cruz

“If you don't see the book you want on the shelf, write it.”

— Beverly Cleary

Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.

— Walker Percy

The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become

— Sheridan Hay

I knew a bit about 'Emma' through the book when I was younger, but actually more from 'Clueless'.

— Josh O'Connor

I was anticipating that some readers might misread [the book] ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling.

— Emma Donoghue

“Books had always been a comfort to me, an escape from reality when reality got to be too real.”

— Julie Fisher

The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Fame in our day is too common to be confused with the enduring glow around the deserving book.”

— Vladimir Nabokov