Book Quotes · Page 258

I keep my self updated by reading different books and encyclopedias.

— Arfa Karim

A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!

— Diana Gabaldon

I think a good book is a good book forever. I don't think they get less good because times change.

— Megan Whalen Turner

I like books on tape, and will listen to just about anything.

— David Sedaris

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

— Michael Cunningham

Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.

— Judy Blume

“She kept her nose in a book and her head in the clouds.”

— Karen Robards

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

— Cassandra Clare

I'd love to do a book with scratch n' sniff pages and pieces of string and plastic attached to the pages, you…

— Lisa Hanawalt

In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it's printed on, but the thousands of hours of work…

— John Green

I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea…

— Aaron Stanford

The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a…

— Gaston Bachelard

Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read…

— Denise Mina

I've always felt that no one understands why some books of non-fiction endure and some don't, because there's not much understanding among…

— Robert Caro

The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation.

— Frederick Lenz

The Koran is a fascist book which incites violence. That is why this book, just like [Adolf Hitler's] Mein Kampf, must be…

— Geert Wilders

I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched…

— Howard Zinn

If I see a nice photography book in New York, and I don't want to have to carry that back to Japan…

— Hiroshi Fujiwara

I was reading the paper and saw a cartoon with Ray Kelly frisking Obama, and I was like "Wait, what's happening?" so…

— Adepero Oduye

I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I came out with a book called The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language. It's a book that describes how…

— Natalie Goldberg

An avid reader, I never missed a book by Judy Blume or Agatha Christie. They both remain two of my favorite authors.…

— Kambri Crews

For the first ten years after I got out of graduate school, I studied success. I read every book I could get…

— Jack Canfield

In my couple of books, including Going Clear, the book about Scientology, I thought it seemed appropriate at the end of the…

— Lawrence Wright

Life has many different chapters of story. One bad chapter doesn't mean it's the end of the book.

— Anonymous

And when I'm not working, my agent books three auditions a day...I'd rather go to the set and work.

— Noureen DeWulf

“Reading books will get you to the door, reading people will get you inside the room.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.

— Amy Harmon

I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.

— Bristol Palin

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

— Mem Fox

It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Thereis no such thing as amoral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

— Oscar Wilde

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon

— Robert B. Parker

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

— William Hague

The mirror is the mother dew, the book of desiccated twilights, echo become flesh.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

“Crazy people. They never think they're crazy. Their craziness makes perfect sense to them.”

— Rick Yancey

My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.

— Pink

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

— Michael Morpurgo

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson