Book Quotes · Page 276

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.

— Richard Curtis

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

— Jean Craighead George

It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes That all things have their center in their dying.

— John Ashbery

I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.

— Frank Delaney

“Life is way too short, so try to enjoy every minute of it with a sense of humor!”

— Christina Scalise

Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.

— James Patterson

Sarah Palin's book is big, 400 pages. She wrote the book herself and agonized over every word, and so will you.

— David Letterman

My entire book was typed with three fingers and a very confident space-bar thumb.

— Sarah Millican

I find reading books about music is sometimes tricky, because you can't hear it. But when you read a book about filmmaking,…

— Bear McCreary

Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take…

— Mark Burnett

“Don't tell me you're reading it,' she said, as if I were doing something to the book, whereas in fact the book…

— Sara Levine

Exposing students to lots of books and positive reading experiences while building a network of other readers who support each other provides…

— Donalyn Miller

“Every time I read a book I try to put myself in the shoes of the king of the track, Ussain Bolt.…

— Daniel Kizlyk

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

When you are reading a book and you finish a chapter, you don’t keep re-reading the chapter you just finished. You move…

— Stephen Reid

It is a challenging task to adapt a book to screen presentation and you will not be able to satisfy those who…

— Vetrimaaran

It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial…

— Galt Niederhoffer

Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books…

— Gavyn Davies

The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much…

— Anonymous

The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica.…

— Paul Laffoley

“The great thing about books was the solidity of the written word. You might change and your reading might change as a…

— Anonymous

Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been…

— Lawrence Block

Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the…

— Elmer Kelton

Well, I'm drawn to stuff that is darker. I will probably do a version of Jane Austen at some point because her…

— Robert Sikoryak

My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.

— Adrianne Palicki

“This is also a book abut God, about what it means--and what it doesn't mean--to believe.”

— Emily P. Freeman

Saying the Bible is not a book about science is like saying a cookbook is not a book about chemistry.

— Robert J. Marks II

“In the pages of a book, you can find the universe within a single heartbeat.”

— Umesha Chathurangi Handapangoda

Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.

— Michel de Montaigne

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

— Anonymous

I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book's autograph.

— Kanye West

Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years.

— Hugh Dancy

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

— Francois Mitterrand

I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.

— Michael Connelly

The world is like a book, if you do not travel you only read a page

— Anonymous

The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.

— Jerry Kramer

All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.

— Tom Paulin

My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.

— Lev Grossman

You can't throw a rock without a comic book character falling out of a tree.

— Morena Baccarin

In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved.

— Anonymous