Book Quotes · Page 259

Sweetie, if you opened a book more times than you opened your legs,you might actually get somewhere in life.

— Nikhil Saluja

“To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list.”

— John Aiken

I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.

— Angela Carter

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

— Lois Lowry

“People have incredible nerve to do terrible things, but never actually admit to them.”

— Henry Mosquera

“Somebody once said if it’s something a single book can explain, it’s not worth having explained.”

— Haruki Murakami

I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation ...

— Patti Smith

In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.

— Luc de Clapiers

In my book, 'Let Patients Help,' one chapter is titled 'Let patients vote on what's worth the cost.' That's sensible, right? In…

— Dave deBronkart

As I get older and write more books I'm definitely allowing the humorous side of my personality more rein in my work.

— Colson Whitehead

If you were to second guess your decision to book some time to visit an Indian community, that would be a reservation…

— Brian Regan

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

— Neil Gaiman

My friend, Dennis Mathis, was reading Eastern European and Japanese experimental writers, and I brought the Latin American writers to his attention,…

— Sandra Cisneros

“there are books which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like…

— John Green

“A book is the pinnacle of arrogance for it demands to be heard, but it cannot listen. It desires to communicate, yet…

— Alec Hutson

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good…

— Jim Bishop

I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company,…

— Bill Bryson

The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the…

— Oscar Wilde

Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will…

— Noah Webster

Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description…

— Susan Sontag

We did a 60 page book in one day. She's one of the most photogenic, easy to shoot, inspiring, extraordinary people in…

— Nigel Barker

I think it’s time to open the books on questions that have remained in the dark on the question of government investigations…

— John Podesta

My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with;…

— Abraham Lincoln

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

— Victor Hugo

The books that matter to me...are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself.

— Sven Birkerts

There is a certain degree of 'steampunkishness' that creeps into my books.

— Jasper Fforde

“Three possessions you should prize: A field, a friend, and a book.”

— Hai guan zong shui wu si shu China Hai guan zong shui wu si shu

A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.

— Christopher McQuarrie

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

— Walter Benjamin

Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.

— Bill Whittle

“The last page of a book is a sacred space that even lovers respect.”

— Tor Udall

I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.

— Jonathan Franzen

If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.

— William H. Gass

I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

— Christopher Paolini

I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

— Amy Winehouse

A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

— Louis L'Amour

Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold.

— Neil Gaiman

I'm kind of a comic book geek, but I'm not really a super hero comic book geek.

— Eric Kripke