Book Quotes · Page 292

It was like meeting someone out of your dreams, or fantasies, or a beloved character from a favorite book.

— James Patterson

“pictures or conversations in it, ‘and what is the use of a book,”

— Anonymous

The only good Philip K. Dick film is 'Total Recall.' It's faithful to the book. Arnie gets it.

— Mark E. Smith

I love what Max Landis is doing with 'Superman: American Alien.' That's a really good book.

— Mark Waid

The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book.

— Tony Ardizzone

At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.

— Heston Blumenthal

I was a comic book nut and grew up on 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones.'

— Christian Borle

Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.

— Travis Barker

I'm jealous of everyone discovering Lovesey and Diamond for the first time-you have a wonderful backlist to catch up on. Me, all…

— Sara Paretsky

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to…

— Anne Fadiman

I'm someone who always wants to do everything differently. If I have a pattern, I'd rather I didn't have a pattern. I…

— Peter Carey

My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my…

— Tao Lin

One of the main reasons I wanted to work on 'World War Z' was because I'm a huge fan of the book,…

— Marc Forster

That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough…

— John Green

I don't care about the bare fact that anyone liked or didn't like a book or movie; they can only interest me…

— Michelle Dean

Every book I think will be my last one because after finishing I have the sense that I've said all I have…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

To write a book such as Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn is a formidable undertaking. You must accumulate thousands of facts and…

— Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

There are instances where lines in my work are borrowed or stolen from sources, mainly from books, or they become my own…

— Raymond Pettibon

Much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary…

— Karen Russell

I went out and started on my way up in television. I wrote music, I wrote books, I played an instrument half-ass.…

— Chuck Barris

My favorite is 'The Last Coyote.' I'm not saying that's the best book I've written; I hope I haven't written my best…

— Michael Connelly

The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an…

— Walter Bagehot

Teachers try to teach me things in books but I learn better by experience. That's what life is anyways, a experience. I…

— Jenna Bognar

“Psalm 37:4 4 Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.”

— LaNina King

My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.

— Yann Martel

Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear

— Anthony Trollope

When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.

— Fran Lebowitz

You are not educated if all you have achieved is the study of ten books.

— Sai Baba

On an average day, I have two things to read in my purse: a book and a play.

— Morgan Saylor

I like to write books that touch my heart. I want to entertain, and I love to entertain myself.

— Simone Elkeles

The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When I am near the end of a book, I have to sleep in the same room with it.

— Joan Didion

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

— Studs Terkel

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

— Rick Moody

I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.

— John Banville

I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.

— Thomas Jefferson

nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!

— Gladys Taber

I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.

— Maeve Binchy

If it's not gripping you, you are reading the wrong book.

— Nick Hornby