Book Quotes · Page 296

There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

— Eugenio Montale

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you…

— Yoko Ono

Anyone doesn't teach you much more quickly as the book of life,

— Mak_786

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

— Emily Giffin

“Books are the reality you get to choose; life is the reality you hide from inside a book.”

— A.M. Hudson

Foreign relations is an open book-- generally a checkbook.

— Will Rogers

Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

— Mark Twain

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort…

— Alanis Morissette

Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those…

— J. C. Ryle

“I don’t want to re-write the same old book with the same tired techniques. I’d rather bring something new to the table…

— Veronika Carnaby

I read a zombie story, and I have nightmares for days. But my youngest sister loves zombie stories. So when she insisted…

— Julie Ann Dawson

Having a book censored means something. It means you have deeply offended one or more people who felt they needed to protect…

— Felice Picano

It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done,…

— Naomi Klein

“You would like to read, but somehow the rain gets into the book, too; not literally, and yet it really does, the…

— Sándor Márai

I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I…

— Nat Hentoff

It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will…

— James Fenimore Cooper

It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical…

— William S. Burroughs

I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L.…

— Gertrude Atherton

If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow…

— Anonymous

I admired Mary's work very much. From the time someone gave me 'The Liars' Club,' I immediately went into a world where…

— Rodney Crowell

Paul Otremba’s remarkable first book, The Currency, is an intriguing foray into lyric epistemology that tries to come to ter ms with…

— Michael Collier

“ Books can change one's life.. as "tools" for the tradesmen, motivate the mind to achieve the impossible, mould one's Character, personality.…

— Henries Charriere

I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world

— Delia Smith

Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

— John Hodgman

Every word I say, you can document it and put it in the history books.

— Riff Raff

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

— Walter Jon Williams

And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.

— Dylan Thomas

Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?

— Cornelia Funke

I read Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.

— Alice Hoffman

“The stuff was tremendous, like drinking your favorite book.”

— Neal Stephenson

If you want to reduce the rats, use the cats! If you want to reduce the fools, use the books!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.

— Helene Hanff

The books that have helped me most are the ones I reacted to, not just read

— Anonymous

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

— Holbrook Jackson

“What's a book boyfriend and how do I find them so I can kick their asses?”

— M.D. Saperstein

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

— Elizabeth Kostova

America, not Keith Ellison, decides what book a congressman takes his oath on,

— Dennis Prager

Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.

— Cardinal Richelieu