Book Quotes · Page 267

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.

— Stephen Dorff

I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.

— Evelyn Waugh

“the way I used to turn the pages of a book to find out what happens in the final chapter”

— Rachel Cusk

I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

— Karl Marx

A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.

— George Murray

A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.

— John Hodgman

I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

— Toni Morrison

I'm going to sound like an egomaniac, but I'm proud of so many things. I feel proud of my book, 'I'm Just…

— Tig Notaro

My favorite book is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee. It is multi-layered, and I see something new in it every…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.

— William Drummond

If you're going to have more than one person read your book, they're going to have totally different opinions and responses. No…

— Diana Gabaldon

If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good…

— Jackie Collins

I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability…

— Will Estes

Son of Lady Chatterley's Lover had obvious commercial advantages (as a title for this book), but it impugned the marital status of…

— Jack Paar

I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and…

— Shel Silverstein

I always thought the front line was the bookstores. And bookstores around America, around the world did astonishingly well. They held the…

— Salman Rushdie

“But what is a book? And what will change if we read onscreen rather than by turning the pages of a physical…

— Jean-Philippe de Tonnac

I went to Europe three times, I read dozens and dozens of books, I studied thousands of photos. But I always supplemented…

— Anthony Doerr

We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well…

— Mother Teresa

“Sometimes a book that appeared dull or off-putting would somehow still draw you in, call to you, and when you finally embarked…

— Liam W. Russell

People would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many…

— Salman Rushdie

I don’t want to be a Princess,” she said finally. “You can’t make me be one.” She knew very well what became…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks…

— Adolf Hitler

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.

— Annie Dillard

“...books give a man ideas, they make him want to live.”

— Patricia Engel

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

— Frank Zappa

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

— Marsilio Ficino

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

— Heinrich Heine

“The world is a book, and he who does not travel reads only a page.”

— St Augustine

A book of quotations is one which is filled with Gods wisdom for a happy life.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Words are directed to your personalities namely; - God, your hearers, devil and yourself.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“I read because one life isn’t enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody.”

— Richard Peck

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.

— George Plimpton

I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.

— Beatrix Potter

Who said time machines haven't been built yet? They already exist. They're called books

— Robert Benchley

I was pleasantly surprised after the book came out. It was like, hey, the home team put down a nice score.

— Rocco DiSpirito

Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.

— Michael Korda

I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.

— Ursula K. Le Guin