Book Quotes · Page 274

I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha!

— Brian Jacques

The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed.

— Sherwood Anderson

You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.

— John Green

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

— Emma Donoghue

There comes a moment which you must decide whether to skip the page or close the book, it's your decision.

— Anonymous

“Give me an atlas over a guidebook any day. There is no more poetic book in the world.”

— Judith Schalansky

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

— Hermann Hesse

A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

— Carl Sagan

Victimless crimes are the lifeline of the RIGHT virus. And there is a growing recognition, even in official quarters, that victimless crimes…

— William S. Burroughs

The greatest books in Russian literature are satires. Gogol's Dead Souls, for example, is a very over-the-top satire about life in Russia.…

— Gary Shteyngart

My ideal vacation isn't about complex maneuvers. I want to arrive somewhere foreign where I don't speak the language, go hiking, then…

— Rosecrans Baldwin

I wanted to be of service to the Peace League, and how could I better do so than by trying to write…

— Bertha von Suttner

“How good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he…

— Ernest Hemingway

I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I…

— Frederick Busch

The general effect of viewing 'Jumanji' is thrilling. I was able to see on film a thing that at one point had…

— Chris Van Allsburg

'Sharp Objects' was scary, unknown territory for me. I wouldn't pick this kind of material to direct if you just gave me…

— Jean-Marc Vallee

If there is a lack of specificity in Grossman's description of the town and the walkers, and if the story perhaps sometimes…

— Ian Sansom

“When I was researching the book Toxic Electricity, I would see biological reactions for up to a week afterwards. They are typically…

— Steven Magee

In a sense, comic books are frozen movies. If you look at a comic book, you are generally seeing the storyboard for…

— Michael Uslan

That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and…

— John Lennon

I am transcribing a book that I have, in a sense, not yet written, and in another sense, have always written, and…

— Charles Yu

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy…

— Bill Maher

God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His. No books ever…

— George Washington Carver

The way my books are structured, everyone was together, then they all went their separate ways and the story deltas out like…

— George R. R. Martin

One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.

— John Muir

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

— George Bernard Shaw

“someone who lends his book is stupid, but one who returns it is stupider”

— Darmanto Jatman

I have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport.

— Jonathan Weeks

Books were my Internet, my TV, my movies all rolled into one.

— John Edgar Wideman

They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas.

— Emil Ruder

I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.

— Harvey Pekar

Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart.

— Harvey Mackay

If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done.

— Sara Sheridan

There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

— Anne Bronte

I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.

— Diana Vreeland

Every filmmaker has this short book of films that don't get made - for a whole host of reasons.

— Debra Granik

“I know the story by heart. The book is just a "do not disturb" sign, to make sure no one talks to…

— Laura Bradley Rede

I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.

— Barbara Mertz

'Underworld' was my first filmed book. I think there are about seven of my lines in it.

— Clive Barker