Book Quotes · Page 280

“You know your book is good when you have to put it down just so you can breathe.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?

— Roald Dahl

I feel somewhat responsible for the Borders Books bankruptcy.

— Susan Orlean

My parents came to visit every two months and brought plenty of books.

— Mathias Rust

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

— David Foster Wallace

I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me.

— Lisa Scottoline

All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.

— Max Lucado

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

— Heraclitus

Tolkien fans reacted so strongly to 'Lord Of The Rings' as a franchise because it stayed true; the heart of it was…

— William Kircher

Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

You have to put your partner and family at the top of the list and there must be downtime - time for…

— Shirley Ballas

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand…

— Thomas Merton

“I prefer the company of books. When I’m reading, I’m never alone, I have a conversation with the book. It can be…

— Sophie Divry

There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady…

— Florence King

I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities,…

— Norton Juster

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Prize not thyself by what thou hast, but by what thou art; he that values a jewel by her golden frame, or…

— Francis Quarles

Instead of giving it [war] a rest I continued pursuing more research, talking to more people on the subject as if I…

— Sasa Stanisic

Beautiful songs could sometimes take a person out of themselves and carry them away to a place of magic. But when Jill…

— Michael Grant

I never have [suffered writer’s block], although I’ve had books that didn’t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just…

— Margaret Atwood

“Solitude of this kind makes me unaware. The roots that bind my person, makes me yearn for freedom and more. I wish…

— Pooja Subramanian

“I'm no writer, but still I want to record my days. And books have given me all the words I need. I…

— Tiffany McDaniel

With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in…

— Kwame Dawes

Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the text of the new life sermon; the girding on of the…

— Austin Phelps

For anyone to take the time to care about what I write and read a book is so flattering to me because…

— Davey Havok

“Writing a book is like dating. It's exciting. It's dreamy. And after four years, I just want to end it.”

— Carole Radziwill

“There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

— Mark Jason Dominus

I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

— Agatha Christie

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

— Dorothy Parker

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

— Charles Dickens

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

— Charles James

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.

— Samuel Johnson

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.

— Ang Lee

I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find.

— Jerry Spinelli

“You need not to burn copies of a book. Just make people feel indifferent to the book.”

— Lara Biyuts

Every rippling muscle is a book not read, a movie not seen, or a conversation not held.

— Richard Cohen