Book Quotes · Page 266

“Nobody reads poetry anymore So who the hell are you I see bent over this book?”

— Aleksandar Ristovic

Book marketing is a skill: it takes knowledge, effort, and persistence to really be successful.

— Heather Hart

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.

— Chris Cleave

With contemporary writers, I often buy books and then realise I've bought them before.

— Prue Leith

The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.

— Adrian McKinty

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

— Donald Miller

“-"you dress to impress" -"No Angel,I undress to impress”

— Becca Fitzpatrick Finale

I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To me, the solidarity of readers is far more important than the solidarity of writers, particularly since readers in fact find ways…

— Aleksandar Hemon

I've yet to find the exact word to describe the enjoyment that an evening spent riffling through old pattern books can bring.

— Anonymous

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this…

— Leo Tolstoy

I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it,…

— Kacey Musgraves

Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but…

— George Washington Cable

Never judge someone By the way he looks Or a book by the way it's covered; For inside those tattered pages, There's…

— Stephen Cosgrove

I've always been about honesty, whether on the radio, whether I did a movie, whether I wrote a book. As long as…

— Howard Stern

I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this…

— Nancy Werlin

“People kept their books, she thought, not because they were likely to read them again but because these objects contained the past--the…

— Tom Rachman

It was the desire to see black girls and our experiences in the books that I was given to read at school…

— Marley Dias

A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable…

— Peter Galison

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant…

— Dorothy Allison

To retire by the age of 35 was my goal. I wasn't sure how I was going to get there though. I…

— Mark Cuban

“Mr. Stegall has birthed a very important book that will help us as a people go to the next level. This book…

— Tony Gaskins Jr

I'm so old that when I started keeping a diary they were in actual books, and I think that's one the reasons…

— David Sedaris

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

— James Russell Lowell

“Don't buy books for your shelf, buy them for yourself.”

— Saji Ijiyemi

Life isn't a book. There's no guarantee of a happy ending.

— Anonymous

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

— Francis Bacon

My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.

— James Patterson

“but God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.”

— Mackenzi Lee

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

— Fay Weldon

Godfather' is based on a book and it is one of the best films.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

— Abraham Lincoln

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

— Mark Haddon

“The characters and events in this book are fictitious.”

— Daniel Abraham

“Children learn to read by being in the presence of books.”

— Horace Mann

Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies]

— Ernst Junger

“... isn't breaking a supervillian out of jail a little ... much?”

— Kirstin van Dyke

I guess if I wrote a book one day, it would be about hair

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

— Jeanette Winterson