Book Quotes · Page 265

In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.

— Michel de Montaigne

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

— Gustave Flaubert

The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking.

— Malala Yousafzai

“How much this book of life changes, he thought. And we are not the ones to write the pages.”

— Naomi Benaron

“Love when you open up your kindle and find the next book in series you forgot was coming <3”

— Tara Ahrendt

What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film.

— Tilda Swinton

My mom gave me the children stories of the Bible. I memorized that book at the age of nine.

— Rza

It is always wonderful to be a curious comet wandering in the galaxy of a good book.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

There's a new children's book that's coming out that features Sarah Palin as a hero. I don't want to give away the…

— Conan O'Brien

A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone book, are strings of code that replicate and evolve over time.…

— George Dyson

“Writing is enormously satisfying, a little difficult at times, but rewarding, especially when someone really loves the book - that is the…

— A.H. Richardson

If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other…

— Charles R. Swindoll

If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost..

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds…

— Nick Hornby

If you want to write about a person who isn't nice, people say, "This is a bad book. It's about somebody I…

— Tama Janowitz

The Most Secret Quintessence of Life is an original work filled with rich, new research, relying on important primary literature which has…

— Anne Fausto-Sterling

It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know…

— Seneca the Younger

I remember being a 12 year old art kid and feeling like there was no exciting art movement happening, especially for somebody…

— Chet Zar

Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor…

— Louis L'Amour

I like to say that I always have a whole book in front of me. I write down the major beats, the…

— Leigh Bardugo

One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways…

— Clive Barker

“The Baby Name book can be a very dangerous tool in the hands of a prolific author.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.

— Will Rogers

I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my…

— Lenny Kravitz

I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.

— Nathan Fillion

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“This book is dedicated, with love, to Bobby, who has found the only pound of pure- Faith in a Loving God.”

— Hubert Selby Jr

reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat.

— Becca Fitzpatrick

I've come to the conclusion that you can't write scary books unless you're easily scared yourself.

— Mary Downing Hahn

I try to have each book be an antidote to the one before.

— Colson Whitehead

Having a family that loves books and loves to read has always created a common ground for communication.

— Tony DiTerlizzi

It feels like we're in a Harry Potter book talking about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section.

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

I don't mind what people say about me. I've never read a book about myself.

— Rupert Murdoch

To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.

— Julian Barnes

My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

— Beverly Cleary