Book Quotes · Page 257

I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff.

— Chad Lindberg

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

— Virginia Woolf

As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed.

— Janet Evanovich

The biblical story of Noah can be found in the book of Genesis.

— Noah

If God did not want us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.

— Dwight L. Moody

I think if Marvel called me to do anything - if they called me to film the phone book - I would…

— Kari Skogland

All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.

— Deborah Moggach

Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood,

— Harper Lee

Books are defensive, not offensive (unless you're the puzzled adult trying to make the kid with the book interact).

— Neil Gaiman

I like vocabulary and I actually read a book called 'Word Freak,' which is about a guy who basically went into competitive…

— Stephen Amell

I can count on one hand the people who are legendary in my book, and Tom Waits is certainly right at the…

— Steve Vai

I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed…

— Kenny Loggins

Remember that just because major publishing is having trouble, that doesn't mean people have stopped reading books. Printed books won't go away,…

— David Morrell

While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I…

— Ma Jian

I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all…

— Charles Lamb

I wonder if books become in essence "files" if people wouldn't write them differently. I'm used to writing print books and I…

— Elaine Equi

If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence…

— Anonymous

Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to…

— Sherman Alexie

Write what you want to read. So many people think they need to write a particular kind of book, or imitate a…

— Cassandra Clare

“Why not admit that my dissatisfaction reveals an excessive ambition, perhaps a megalomaniac delirium? For the writer who wants to annul himself…

— Italo Calvino

“True,' I said, amazed. Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or devine, that lie outside books.…

— Umberto Eco

In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own…

— Saint Augustine

For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make…

— Bill Bryson

“For the first time in her life, she read voraciously. Anything that was on Joe's bookshelves she considered to have a worthy…

— Freya North

“…she was so exhausted and tired, so overwhelmed, that she needed a Red Bull, to calm down and fall asleep.”

— Haidji

My Sister Rosa was bumped from the schedule. None of my books has ever been bumped before. It freaked me out.

— Justine Larbalestier

Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive.

— Fran Lebowitz

The tragedy of the Book of Mormon is not what became of the Nephites but what the Nephites became.

— Hugh Nibley

“You are created with a mandate! You have all you need to fulfill it.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always have the impression that I write the same book.

— Patrick Modiano

But he thought all the strange words were beautiful, and he had never had a book of his own before.

— Tove Jansson

Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.

— Nate Berkus

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

— Erica Jong

Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths.

— Maggie Stiefvater

I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.

— Michael Morpurgo

I love reading. I spend a huge amount of time travelling on planes and have always got a book on the go.

— Ben Fogle

I love the book legacy of lies it amazing and is fun to read over and over again

— Elizabeth Chandler

The book is not completely written until someone else has read it.

— Terry Pratchett

Parents should leave books lying around marked ‘forbidden’ if they want their children to read.

— Doris Lessing