Book Quotes · Page 288

My own daughter is a big fan of the 'Twilight' stories, the books.

— Michael Sheen

I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

— Kid Rock

It's a novel experience to have one of my books read by a reading group.

— Alastair Reynolds

“No creature on earth has a right to think himself a human being if he doesn't know at least one good book”

— Anonymous

I'm not a fan of the 'Geordie Shore,' 'Towie'-type stuff. I'd rather watch something else, or read a book.

— Adrian Lester

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.

— Laurence Sterne

“Librarians know books, we live books, we breathe books, we are books.”

— Jenny Levine

“Un libro leído a medias es una aventura amorosa incompleta.”

— David Mitchell

Ads answered out of desperation in the New York Review of Books proved equally futile as…the 'Bay Area Bisexual' told me I…

— Woody Allen

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue, you sell him…

— Anonymous

When I'm blogging, I think book writing is easier and vice versa. Writing is lonely work, and the good thing about blogging…

— Jenny Lawson

Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they…

— Nikki Giovanni

The Bible is wonderful. It's only one book, but you can put two grams of coke on top of the Bible, and…

— Udo Kier

It was a broiling afternoon of mid-August in Brinoe and everybody who was anybody had long ago quit its burning pavements and…

— Louis Bromfield

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that…

— Ezra Pound

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than…

— Austin Kleon

“The book was Shelley, and it opened at a passage that he had cherished greatly two years before, and marked as “very…

— E.M. Forster

My first book was published when I was thirty-two, so I think it was basically finished when I was thirty or thirty-one.…

— Robert Hass

Keep in mind that this appears in the same book of the Bible that approves the death sentence for a child who…

— Jim Butcher

I think of this a lot in the terms of books. Of course there's a big to-do culturally about e-books versus print…

— Ron Currie Jr

There is no evidence that the author of the Book of Revelation, John of Patmos, read anything that we think of as…

— Elaine Pagels

“[Books] were devices as crassly practical for storing or transmitting language, as the latest Silicon Valley miracles. But by accident, not by…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Do not make Mistakes about Character. That is the worst and yet easiest error. Better be cheated in the price than in…

— Baltasar Gracian

I love a statement by the apostle Paul, in the Book of Philippians in the Bible. I think the Corinthians had been…

— Maya Angelou

My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.

— Jorge Luis Borges

As far as exercising goes...watch for my next book, How I died while Jogging.

— Drew Carey

The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.

— Leonard Ravenhill

Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable.

— John Edgar Wideman

Years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat.

— Dennis Weaver

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

— Rose Macaulay

'The Silence of the Lambs' is my favourite book, favourite film.

— Florence Pugh

“Everybody manages one way or another; everyone who is alive and reading this book has managed.”

— Sylvia Boorstein

Anyone who was once a child should have at least one children's book in them.

— Michael Rosen

I actually didn't do any writing of music while I was locked up. I wrote a book, but I didn't do any…

— Da Brat

“It takes a week to write a book, but it takes years to write a good one.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Not having any books makes me feel empty and strained and pathetic.”

— Laura Amy Schlitz

The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.

— Orhan Pamuk

“Sometimes hanging out in pajamas with a good book sounded like a phenomenal idea.”

— Chloe Neill

without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold.

— Elizabeth Bowen