Book Quotes · Page 263

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

— Charles Kingsley

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

— Tamora Pierce

We are on the cusp of a marketing revolution. And it's being led by YOU.

— Mark Schaefer

A thousand books on tennis won’t improve your serve, but a thousand serves will.

— Rick DeMarinis

The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.

— Spencer Wells

I don't know if I have a book in me, but I'm sure I have more essays.

— Eden Robinson

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

— Patricia Cornwell

The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar.

— Gabriel Ba

There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books…

— Kurt Vonnegut

'Lord of the Rings' was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's…

— William P. Young

People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if…

— Leo Tolstoy

I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a…

— Nick Clegg

I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a…

— John Podhoretz

My ex-student, Idit Harel, who wrote a book, "Children Designs," has a documented story of a kid who was very shy, isolated…

— Seymour Papert

I reckon I can count on 30 more writing years, averaging a book a year (I can't keep up the 2-2.5 a…

— Charles Stross

Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because…

— John Green

My teacher introduced me to this photographer Eugène Atget. He was a French photographer in the late 1800s up until 1927 in…

— Jeff Vespa

“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more…

— Marilynne Robinson

I wanted to talk about certain things in a way that I hadn't seen them talked about. There is vast literature about…

— Kyo Maclear

Depression is a serious problem, but drugs are not the answer. In the long run, psychotherapy is both cheaper and more effective,…

— Irving Kirsch

So, when people try to give you some book with a shiny round award on the cover, be kind and gracious, but…

— Brandon Sanderson

I love the drive from York to Whitby over the moors - one of the great journeys, in my book.

— Penelope Wilton

It's not how many books you get through, it's how many books get through you.

— Mortimer Adler

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

— Thomas Carlyle

While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure.

— Stephen J. Dubner

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

— John Green

“Options abound world over, Options to choose from and be the best.”

— Agu Jaachynma N E

The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.

— Enoch Powell

I love reading books, I love the way they feel and getting through it. It's like an event!

— Kate Nash

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

— Marilyn Hacker

“Finish the book. Finish the book, regardless of how bad it is. You can make it better in a rewrite.”

— Joe Hill

I don't read books. I read the Daily Express and The Star.

— Tim Sherwood

Sharing education, sharing a book…that’s what changes the world.

— Brad Meltzer

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?

— Dan Barker

There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

— Aaron Carter

I don't judge the book by its cover, I judge the cover by its book. And guess what, the book is still…

— Unkown

I hate to badmouth any book or writer, because I know how it feels to be on the other end of that.

— Karin Slaughter