Book Quotes · Page 279

Time-awareness does indeed watermark my books and my life.

— Jane Hirshfield

“ I didn't read the book. I burned it after the first sentence. ”

— Rodindeadpan

Much of hip-hop, like comic books, is fantastical by nature, too.

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones.

— Clive James

I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.

— Max Brooks

“Each book holds an experience and an adventure." [ Letters of Note ; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]”

— Neil Armstrong

I think, what's the point of writing a book that you would get in one sitting?

— Hilton Als

The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

— Blaise Pascal

I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading…

— Kate DiCamillo

People can relate to reading a book for the first time and the world starts to create, even without you prepping for…

— Alicia Vikander

Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking.…

— Mads Mikkelsen

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to…

— Henry Ford

If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question…

— Amy Purdy

I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Beginning a new book is always a test of my expectations. The turn of a single page can lift me up or…

— Kim Hotzon

Michael Lowenthal has written a big-hearted and wise book about familial love in all its richness and complexity.

— Dani Shapiro

Out of the blending of human and animal stories comes the theme that I hope is inherent in all my books: that…

— Fred Bodsworth

The book that blew the doors off the house, grabbing me with its breathtakingly deep and irresistible view of the universe and…

— Carolyn Porco

Myrnin came in from the back room, carrying a load of books, which he dropped with a loud bang on the floor…

— Rachel Caine

Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness. Everything has to be filled in, it seems-appointment books,…

— Benjamin Hoff

“The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching…

— Greg Weisman

This is the sort of book that justifies fatwahs. If WWIII occurred right now, we could die happy knowing Baxter would never…

— James Nicoll

Then began an experience that turned my life around-working on a book with a black kid as hero. None of the manuscripts…

— Ezra Jack Keats

The people themselves begin to clamour for an education which shall qualify their children for life rather than for earning a living.…

— Charlotte Mason

Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.

— Henry Miller

Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.

— Alexandra Ripley

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to…

— Toni Morrison

Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.

— Alan Blinder

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.

— Cilla Black

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

— W. H. Auden

“Every book you read may not save your life but some of them will.”

— Adam Stanley

Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)

— Jeanette Winterson

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

— Zadie Smith

“We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

— Benjamin Franklin

We are made whole by books, as by great space and the stars.

— Mary Carolyn Davies

I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" .

— John Boyne

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship

— Sara Paretsky

I'm the only kid in the world who doesn't want an eighth Harry Potter book.

— Daniel Radcliffe