Book Quotes · Page 255

I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.

— Herman Melville

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

— Francoise Sagan

Miracles is the sort of book that once you've read it you'll wonder where it's been all your life

— Kathie Lee Gifford

I can’t persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me,

— Lawrence Block

I don't think women are interesting enough to merit a book. They're more of a pamphlet sex.

— Alex Linder

“God wants all man's attention, thoughts and focus to be on Him.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.

— Kadir Nelson

I'm a huge Cormac McCarthy fan and have read every book of his.

— James Franco

Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be…

— Kirby Larson

Whenever I sign books, I get this line over and over again from men: "I don't read fiction, but my wife does.…

— Siri Hustvedt

Leaving the page of the book carelessly open, something unsaid, the phone off the hook and the love, whatever it was,an infection.

— Anne Sexton

The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with…

— Galileo Galilei

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with…

— Deb Caletti

I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book…

— Richard Dawkins

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence.…

— Jean de la Bruyere

If the election had turned out differently, I could be the one overseeing the signing of bailout checks and Vice President Biden…

— Sarah Palin

I don't believe in burning holy books, but I am organizing a protest. I'll be burning all my Dennis Miller VHS cassettes…

— Andy Kindler

“As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she…

— Frederick Weisel

A piece of art - this goes for a painting or a sculpture or a book or whatever - really shouldn't have…

— Max Kellerman

I've always enjoyed stories that take place in the future but my one disappointment was that the future books described never came.…

— Albert Brooks

Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That’s because my books are not to…

— Antonio Lobo Antunes

Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an…

— Andrew O'Hagan

But when I do book signings and personal appearances, the audiences are mostly white. Growing up here, I expected that and understand…

— George Pelecanos

Longest book was '2666' by Roberto Bolano, and it was an irregular reading experience. I read the first four parts during a…

— Sarah Weinman

Gently stroke your books, dear stranger, and remember they are dust.

— Miljenko Jergovic

A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.

— Henry David Thoreau

I would just love to create a bunch of patents, I have a book of 50 right now.

— Kellan Lutz

I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.

— Robert Cormier

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.

— A. N. Wilson

To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily.

— Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned.

— Sue Townsend

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

— Shane Carruth

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.

— Dwight L. Moody

As far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs.

— Jesse Ball

“The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page.”

— St Augustine

Use book value as a starting point to try and establish the value of the enterprise.

— Walter Schloss

I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel.

— Walter Hill

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

— Malala Yousafzai

“Writing a book should be the best way to break into someone's house.”

— Krishna

I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.

— Mariella Frostrup