Book Quotes · Page 298

“Sometimes I look at you and I just can't believe you're mine”

— James Patterson

Eight out of 100 people in the Himalayas have published their own books.

— G. N. Devy

I think of dystopian as 'Mad Max,' as 'Book of Eli,' as the world is ending.

— Tyra Banks

Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.

— Kabir

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

— Walter Pater

“THE BADGE BOYS SERIES Book #1: PRETTY BOY Book #2: DARK WEB   THE”

— Tara Oakes

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

— Norman Cousins

I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.

— Edward Abbey

You can do so much crazy stuff with books that isn't necessarily being done. That's how culture stays alive - by doing…

— Ryan North

Everyone's waiting for the seventh book, and looking at each other saying, 'Oh, I wonder will I be in the running?

— Brendan Gleeson

“I wasn’t going to compromise. I wanted the guy in the books. The book boyfriend must come to life. Otherwise there was…

— Anonymous

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple,…

— Russell Banks

I had a lot of funky things as a kid. I had dinosaurs and comic book stuff. I was eccentric; imagination drove…

— Brian Tee

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

— Tom Robbins

I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning…Then…

— Truman Capote

“I dread that awkward moment when a friend hands you the book that changed his or her life, and it is a…

— Joe Queenan

It’s interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is…

— Donald Miller

I had a book that was given to me as a kid that was called 'Faeries.' It was this dark, sinister book…

— Anna Silk

Dogwalker is a book of fiction, with characters based on the types of people who truly exist in the world. I've seen…

— Arthur Bradford

The gift of creative reading, like all natural gifts, must be nourished or it will atrophy. And you nourish it, in much…

— Katherine Paterson

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own…

— Gilbert Highet

“I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, though most people find themselves hindered in believing me,…

— Markus Zusak

Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs…

— Ralph Nader

The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the…

— Cecil Roth

I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book.

— George R. R. Martin

My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.

— William Butler Yeats

English Teacher were never going to finish this book if you constantly pick the illiterate people to read.

— Anonymous

“And maybe it was fair; if a book was any good, it was a slap in the face to someone.”

— John Irving

I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

— Henry Rollins

Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.

— Joanne Harris

My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page.

— Marianne Williamson

“She set her book carefully down, dog-earing a corner of her page with love.”

— Sandhya Menon

“The Zoe is the book you’ve been writing in. It means “life” in Greek.”

— Nicole Gulla

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

— Farley Mowat

Arguably, in business books, I don't think there's much that has never been said before.

— Guy Kawasaki

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a…

— Dan Mangan

For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.

— Amanda Hocking

Life is same as a book, you're holding a pen and writing it. Don't forget: never give your pen to someone else.

— Unkown

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

— Mason Cooley

This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.

— Terry Pratchett