Book Quotes · Page 270

Carlton Mellick III has the craziest book titles and the kinkiest fans!

— Christopher Moore

“I am the words of my book but sometimes I'm written wrong”

— Zeeuuusss

If you gone start something finish it, never close a book without finishing its chapter.

— Alyssa Tillmon

“Our books are the deepest glimpses into our souls, the most raw and real anybody will ever find us.”

— Melodie Ramone

“The book wasn’t half bad. But only because I only read half of it.”

— Jarod Kintz

I'm impossible when a book is taking shape. Well, actually, I'm despicable.

— Lloyd Alexander

Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.

— Edward Abbey

Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too.

— Heinrich Heine

I still get enormous pleasure and a sense of fulfillment out of writing a book that I'm proud of. I see myself…

— Wilbur Smith

Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote,…

— James Altucher

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore…

— Richard Russo

Whatever it is that you love to do, be it collect comic books or play the guitar, that you can make a…

— Meredith Brooks

“The mark of a good book is that you're happy to come home to it. The mark of a great book is…

— Derek Thompson

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would…

— Anonymous

I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a…

— Emile Hirsch

To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really…

— Ann Goldstein

I wanted to be supportive of parents rather than to scold them. The book set out very deliberately to counteract some of…

— Benjamin Spock

I want her to be powerful on these covers, and sometimes that's a quiet power and other times it's a more bombastic…

— Cliff Chiang

With a 660-page book, you don't read every sentence aloud. I am terrified for the poor guy doing the audio book. But…

— Don Winslow

I'm astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing: it should inhibit me from…

— Fernando Pessoa

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.…

— Ray Bradbury

I love everything about books. I love the content, the way they look and even the lovely way they smell. I think…

— Jo Brand

I have a passion for words. I love words. And I'm just learning and developing my skills for words. I do books…

— Geoff Thompson

If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any…

— William Kingdon Clifford

Books make great gifts because they expand your horizons and keep you cooking.

— Emeril Lagasse

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribners in New York before I was 30.

— Morley Callaghan

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

— Rudy Rucker

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

— Jeff Bezos

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

— William Goldman

I grew up with my uncle's comic books at my grandma's house, so I've always loved my comic book reading.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

I'm an open book. People seem to like people that are very open - accepting, and not rude.

— Cupcakke

“Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity.”

— Donald J. Bingle

I always have at least one book with me. I try and read a book a month.

— Gus Kenworthy

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

— William S. Burroughs

I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.

— Iain Banks

There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!

— Lewis Carroll

“READING A GOOD BOOK IS LIKE LIVING ANOTHER LIFE. THE BEST PART IS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIKE IT.”

— Phillip Knight

Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.

— Salman Rushdie

In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.

— Richard Eder

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.

— Edwidge Danticat