Book Quotes · Page 262

Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.

— A. J. Jacobs

When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.

— Paullina Simons

'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in…

— Marjane Satrapi

When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.

— Anonymous

“Shout out for Joy! Don't scream out in fear for victors shout and victims scream.”

— Agu Jaachynma N E

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

— Alec Baldwin

I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

— Tony Hillerman

“If you don't love to read, you just haven't found the right book.”

— Tim Green

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

— Anonymous

I read Dad's books like I did before, now things are crystal clear. Lock the door in the bathroom, now I just…

— Alice Cooper

Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least one book for…

— Avi

I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and…

— Ida Tarbell

When each one of us become an active and living book of lessons for those who see our examples, the boundaries of…

— Chico Xavier

But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding…

— Vera Wang

In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the…

— William Irwin Thompson

“The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization.…

— Nicholas Carr

I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because…

— Matt Mullenweg

“The feeling inside that she experienced when she saw the books was akin to the hunger she felt as food was put…

— Jacqueline Winspear

In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen…

— William P. Young

“I mean that the book had better make life better better in at least six or seven definite ways immediately. Also, there…

— Jesse Ball

“I just finished reading Pearl Cleage 'What looks like Crazy on an ordinary day' and Ernessa T. Carter '32 Candles'; they were…

— Ernessa T. Carter

“You are reading while walking, she reads. You can't see your feet. The spread pages glide over the sidewalk, mottled by leaf…

— Joyelle McSweeney

As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine.…

— Joseph Brodsky

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

— Lee Child

“Life is an open book, with the potential to become whatever can be comprehended.”

— Steven Redhead

Of all needs a book has, the chief need is to be readable.

— Anthony Trollope

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

— Stephen King

Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.

— Roy Peter Clark

Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.

— Victor Borge

“They believed all books should be read, for as long as the reader liked.”

— Alice Hoffman

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

— William Gibson

'Wajah Tum Ho' experience in my history book will be in my top 5.

— Sana Khan

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.

— Princess Diana

For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.

— Mervyn Peake

Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy.

— Robert Fripp

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

— John Lennon

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

— Robert M. Gates

“A bestseller is a book written by a rich person of Indian roots staying in Europe for more than a decade..”

— Himmilicious

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

— Friedrich Nietzsche