Book Quotes · Page 277

“If our love was a story book, we would meet on the very first page.”

— Shayne Ward

I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.

— Ann Patchett

The things that are really important to me are my man, my animals and my books. I don't need anything else.

— Mary Crosby

In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.

— Ernest Hemingway

skulduggery pleasant is the best book I've ever read and has enspired myself to become an author.

— Derek Landy

Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.

— Sherman Alexie

my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways" from the book of Isaiah

— Mitch Albom

“The only way to really know whether or not you will like a book, is to read it.”

— John Campedelli

I mean, there's always somebody in somebody's administration who jumps out early, sells a book, and goes after the guy who hired…

— Bob Dole

I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me,…

— Zadie Smith

In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a…

— Confucius

Who you are, what your values are, what you stand forthey are your anchor, your north star. You won't find them in…

— Anne M. Mulcahy

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the…

— Rose Kennedy

Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose…

— Bill Callahan

But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to…

— Ron Rash

My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that,…

— Shelby Foote

The idea wasn't to make a direct political statement since the current economic collapse hadn't begun when we started on the book.…

— James Vance

I saved letters from my boss. There are things in there that are directly transcribed. I was so glad I did that.…

— Melissa Febos

I've been writing a book called The Economics of Innocent Fraud. I published part of it already in The Progressive ("Free Market…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The Book of Reveal-ation in the Bible predicts an unveiling of great truth and unimaginable wisdom. The Apocalypse is not the end…

— Dan Brown

The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a…

— Siri Hustvedt

I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm…

— Jason Wiles

Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe…

— Jami Attenberg

The mistake...was attributed in part to the fact that employees called the 3-year note 'Losh' and the 5-year note 'Bosh'. The comic…

— Frank Partnoy

''The Bible a book with too many rules and less love then it actually describes.''

— Jeremy Limn

I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.

— Jesse Ventura

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

— Elie Wiesel

I can't write a book like 'Lamb' or 'Fool' every year. It just takes too much research and craft.

— Christopher Moore

Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

— Nawal El Saadawi

I have a very short attention span, so sitting down with a book is very difficult for me.

— Tomi Lahren

My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.

— Maureen Forrester

“I’ll read anything since I’m something of a book slut.”

— Nick Pageant

“Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.”

— Augusta Scattergood

The most invigorating form of reading matter is, of course, a will.

— Nancy Banks-Smith

I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books.

— Mason Cooley

In the eyes of a seer, every leaf of a tree is a page of the Holy Book and contains divine revelation ...

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.”

— Kamand Kojouri

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

— Calvin Trillin

I've never been fully transparent or an open book, even to those you'd call close friends.

— Rachel Dolezal