Book Quotes · Page 284

You are the book; there is only one version with many chapters.

— Aroha Janet

“No one with a book is ever alone, even in the darkest moments.”

— Rachel Caine

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.

— Danielle Steel

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England

— Queen Victoria

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

— P. L. Travers

Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves.

— Jonathan Messinger

“You must feel it from within. You must want to write the book. You must desire to write the book”

— Emily Gowor

I have so many books to write now. So I'll write from home. Sometimes I'm writing in the office too, in my…

— Gerard Way

Reading the final copy of my book was like walking down memory lane all over again. Sure, the writing process was emotional,…

— Gigi Gorgeous

I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd…

— David Levithan

My husband asked me once why I read so many mysteries, and part of it is just intellectual, part of it is…

— Diana Gabaldon

That freedom of writing you don't get in other formats, I'd rather leave it to someone else to deal with the headache…

— Ashwin Sanghi

As an author, I realise, you're on your own. You have to do everything you can to help The Book. If I…

— Tibor Fischer

As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Larry Geller’s Leaves of Elvis’ Garden is by far the best book I have ever read about Elvis. It is emotional, revealing…

— Uri Geller

If you are a woman and you bought this book for practical tips on how to make it in a male-dominated workplace,…

— Tina Fey

It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he…

— Dale Carnegie

In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally…

— Louisa May Alcott

The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in…

— Jane Austen

As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language…

— Jon Stewart

What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered…

— Isaac Asimov

The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison,…

— Leo Tolstoy

A slave's life is mostly composed of patience and study. Yes, study. If not with actual books, then following the example of…

— Laura Antoniou

“I never found a book that did not have at least a little magic in it”

— William Ritter

I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.

— Jay McShann

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

— Christina Ricci

“The problem with reading a good book is trying to cope after it's finished.”

— Devonnie A. Black

It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

— Cornelia Funke

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

— Anonymous

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.

— Karin Slaughter

I read Mitch Daniels's book, 'Keeping the Republic,' several times.

— Eric Greitens

The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.

— Edmund Spenser

“the books shot off the shelf like academic projectile puke.”

— Leigh Evans

The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.

— Milton Berle

I like to read all kinds of books ranging from spiritual, philosophical, to best-sellers and crime thrillers.

— Mukul Dev

'One With You' was the hardest book I have ever written. I rewrote it three times.

— Sylvia Day

“there’s a bigger social reward for being able to talk about books than for actually reading them.”

— William Deresiewicz

As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text.

— John Green