Book Quotes · Page 295

“Do not rush when you read, a book has no expiration date.”

— Ingrid Holm-Garibay

“A life is like a book of many chapters and topics. Which Chapter are is your life?”

— Elizabeth Adeniyi

Whoever you are, you will not write this book. I can tell you nothing. Do not call me again. Ever.

— Roberto Calvi

Climbing trees is still one of my favorite things to do. A tree and a good book and I'm happy.

— Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

A book has but one vioce, but it does not instruct everyone alike.

— Anonymous

“I was a shy girl, but when I read, I was adventurous. Books made me bolder.”

— Roxane Gay

“It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds...”

— William Ellery Channing

You can't control what's going to happen to the book you're about to publish.

— Rumaan Alam

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they…

— Kathryn Stockett

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

— Sara Gruen

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I…

— Louisa May Alcott

I wanted to create a book that was unafraid of black bodies, yet super interested in thinking about the relationship of love…

— Kiese Laymon

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal…

— Lewis Carroll

You must talk to me, Caravaggio. Or am I just a book? Something to be read, some creature to be tempted out…

— Michael Ondaatje

I am often asked why I use a variety of pen names. The answer is that this way readers always know which…

— Jayne Ann Krentz

“Adding to my emotional dizziness on Sunday, I spoke with my sister, who kept noting how amazing Michael is, and what a…

— Zack Love

You shouldn't think of these movies as being 'The Lord of the Rings.' The Lord of the Rings is, and always will…

— Peter Jackson

Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of…

— J. C. Ryle

What we did [shooting "Fences"] was we got young students from Carnegie Mellon, the acting and theater students, and we had them…

— Denzel Washington

I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a…

— Oprah Winfrey

So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that,…

— Nick Hornby

We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sinks in……

— Anonymous

That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a…

— Studs Terkel

The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.

— Orison Swett Marden

Books open windows to the world and have the power to transform lives.

— Ralph Lauren

I mean, of course, I love sci-fi and stuff like that, but I'm not, like, a comic book crazy guy.

— Russell Hornsby

I've never gotten anything but support and thanks from people for having diverse books.

— Brian K. Vaughan

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf

I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.

— Joe Strummer

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I…

— Amanda Hocking

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

— Mahmoud Darwish

“Books are like magic carpets, taking us to places real and imaginary that we never thought possible.”

— Anonymous

I'm writing a book about Siamese Twins that are attached at the nose. It's called: Stop Staring at Me!

— Zach Galifianakis

Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length.

— Hall Caine

“have you read any book from "heinrich boll"?he is my faverit writer . what do u think about his books?”

— Heinrich Bollinger

“Not everything worth learning is summarized in book. Sometimes you've got to rely on instincts.”

— Samanthe Beck

I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year!

— Colum McCann

Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.

— Isaac Watts

I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.

— George R. R. Martin