Book Quotes · Page 256

When you feel your book is the height of irrelevance you can return to the excitement of the daily news.

— Deborah Solomon

There's a children's book by Anthony Browne called 'The Tunnel' that I've always loved.

— Billy Howle

It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

You know, I've never been a comic book person, just because that's not my gig and I don't have a television.

— Allison Mack

Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

I like to match what I wear to my book jacket - it's a little bit cheesy, but it's my thing.

— Emily Giffin

You can sell a lot more books if you work with other authors than if you try to do everything all by…

— John Kremer

“Choose a book," she said. "Any book. Bring it here, and I'll show you what else the world can offer.”

— Peter V. Brett

I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of…

— Stephen King

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed…

— Moliere

There are all these things I want to do when I don't have to finish a book. But I have to keep…

— Robert K. Massie

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his…

— Walter Benjamin

I really love 'Bridget Jones's Diary' - and I love the book, too. You wonder how it ever got made into a…

— Mindy Kaling

When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried…

— Pat Conroy

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a…

— Idries Shah

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as…

— Thomas Perry

I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books.…

— Henning Mankell

The Library didn't only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained…

— Terry Pratchett

When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction,…

— Samuel Hynes

I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer…

— Stephen King

“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked…

— Virginia Woolf

Many of the most important principles of intelligence cannot by taught at universities, from books, or through other temporal learning processes. Often…

— Monte J. Brough

As for environmentalism, I'm only an environmentalist by accident. I live in New York, so I bike, and the closest grocery store…

— Jesse Eisenberg

I go around with my books so much and I love to perform on stage, to remind everybody that the lights are…

— T.C. Boyle

If you've got a good book with you, you're never bored (or alone).

— Amy Dickinson

I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way.

— Nick Hornby

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

— Stephen King

There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.

— Asne Seierstad

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

— Henry David Thoreau

If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important

— Roald Dahl

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

— Jane Yolen

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

— John Green

“It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.

— L. Ron Hubbard

The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

— F. H. Bradley

I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.

— Henny Youngman

A breeze discovered my open book And began to flutter the leaves to look

— Anonymous

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Every man is a story book. It has drama, adventure, comedy, tragedy, fantasy, and romance.”

— Sunil Thomas

It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow