Book Quotes · Page 286

There are always challenges with books , deciding what to include and what to omit.

— Patricia Leavy

“A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“This book, for me, is less an exercise in recall than exorcism.”

— Jerry Stahl

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many…

— Joseph Joubert

“A wise man once said that if a book was not worth reading twice it was not worth reading once.”

— Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson

“A world without books would be a world not worth living in.”

— Eugenia Argerami

“I believe that books must go through a fairly slow birthing process...”

— Margaret Westhaven

“this book. I will try to repay all of you with sustenance”

— Amy Tan

“If I am willing to read a book in its entirety, I will give it five stars. I do not list books…

— Paula Shene

Alternative Lifestyles, the emotional fly-drive packages of our times, come equipped with a set of clothes, a choice of authors, a limited…

— Ellen Goodman

My history is that I will create a character, and they will have a book to themselves, and then I'll integrate the…

— Michael Connelly

“I get absolutely and undeniably attached to book characters to the point where I cry and laugh with them, and physically miss…

— Boodfessions #207

Every missionary who is proclaiming the name and gospel of Jesus Christ will be blessed by daily feasting from the Book of…

— Henry B. Eyring

I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it…

— Stephan Pastis

A lot of people think I'm really outgoing and confident, but I'm not. I'd much rather sit in a corner and read…

— Eddie the Eagle

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more…

— Alan Rickman

My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page…

— Junot Diaz

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book…

— Cyril Connolly

There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that…

— Thomas Paine

The 7 Practices of Exceptional Student Athletes is an excellent book for student athletes to understand what it takes to be successful.…

— Danny Ford

I hope to see the two great religions, Islam and Christianity, hand-in-hand, embracing each other. Then the Torah and the Bible and…

— Muhammad Abduh

In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction writer. [dedication…

— Arthur C. Clarke

This particular one was very, very heartwarming and is the relationship of an older man and a young boy that are essentially…

— Rhys Darby

I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.

— Peter Sotos

“Be careful what you say...you might end up in my next book!”

— Michele Lynn Seigfried

They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!

— Emil Ruder

Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.

— Frederick Lenz

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.

— Flannery O'Connor

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

— Ford Madox Ford

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

— Cassandra Clare

I blurb a lot of books by women, and I'm eager to provide encouragement and support for young women.

— Jennifer Egan

Being a hardcore old-school comic book lover, it took me a while to accept the need for comic book movies.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?

— George Carlin

It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported.

— Sarah Jessica Parker

hey guys i would like you to try this book you will love it!

— Jeff Kinney

In books we seek God; in prayer we find him. Prayer is the key which opens God's heart.

— Pio of Pietrelcina

Oh, the Places You'll Go!,' by Dr. Seuss, is still one of my favorite books ever.

— Hilary Swank

Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.

— Cassandra Clare

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

— Curtis Sittenfeld