Book Quotes · Page 268

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

— Martin Luther

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.

— Tom Waits

I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.

— Vikram Seth

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

— Andrew Lang

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

— Ray Bradbury

“WHEN YOU'RE READING YOU SHOULD PRETEND YOU'RE REALLY THERE BECAUSE IT WILL MAKE THE BOOK MOR INTERESTING!”

— Mary Downing Hahn

My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.

— Michael Shanks

Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.

— Tyler Cowen

Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the…

— Charles Stross

Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I have the power to write these books where I invent characters that I really like, and it gets to come out…

— Ruth Glick

You can try and read me like a book but Ill slam the cover closed. Ive got secrets in my pages that…

— Anonymous

With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family.

— John Banville

“Regret and celebration are equally important facets of aging. Throughout this book, these two aspects will appear in various guises and voices.…

— Lewis Richmond

TRIGGER CITY secures Sean Chercover's place as one of the best crime writers of his generation. It grabs you hard on the…

— Tasha Alexander

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in…

— Harper Lee

What i’m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, instead…

— Anonymous

The book [There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?] is quite complex, and I was worried that it would be marketed as…

— Morgan Parker

All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive - this has to do…

— Andrea Barrett

Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if…

— Daniel Pennac

Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left…

— Cornelia Funke

“I felt the heat of the animosity they bear towards me, the vindictive nature that drives a man to destroy his neighbour…

— Sjón

“I’ve read somewhere in a book when something happens that is unbearable to you, sometimes, time stops. Like your inner clock just…

— Katja Michael

It's not unheard of, in the course of life, that if there's enough interest in it, we could consider going a second…

— Remi Aubuchon

I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.

— Paul Theroux

I love comic books. Since I was a kid, I've collected them.

— James Mangold

For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.

— Dennis Ritchie

The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

— Michel de Montaigne

I buy a lot of books I've found via the Internet, whose existences I'd otherwise never have known about.

— Heidi Julavits

I always feel that the book I'm working on is my last book.

— Lorrie Moore

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

— Robert M. Hutchins

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

— Raymond Chandler

Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read.

— E. L. Doctorow

“Don't read a book to let the time pass...let the time pass to read a book.”

— Nicholaa Spencer

Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

— Edith Wharton

My books are, in a way, a record of my life - that part of it that came to flower and fruit…

— John Burroughs

Definitely things changed from the books. Especially when youre adapting something.

— Chad Hodge

If you like books with happy endings then put this book down immediately.

— Anonymous

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.

— Judy Blume

She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.

— Gloria Estefan