Book Quotes · Page 300

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

— Beverly Cleary

“Drench yourself in words unspoken, live your life with arms wide open, today is where your book begins.”

— Natasha Bedingfield

The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.

— Matt Ridley

A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.

— Chris Ware

“Because all books ARE the Book of Job -- man in the crucible like Jack in the Box…”

— Stanley Elkin

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

— Oscar Wilde

The book is so rich and yet it is well done. A rare achievement indeed!

— Gil Kalai

The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture.

— David Lloyd

Of course, Republicans still can't believe that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. But then Democrats can't believe that Sarah Palin…

— Jay Leno

I have poetic failures all the time. Many failed poems. I try not to publish those, though some have slipped into each…

— Matthea Harvey

There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom. Whether it be of law,…

— Herbert Hoover

I honestly believe there is absolutely nothing like going to bed with a good #book; or a friend who's #read one.

— Phyllis Diller

It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped…

— Scott McClanahan

When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection…

— Julianna Baggott

“Children ask me sometimes what book I'd take to a desert island, but I think I couldn't go to a desert island…

— Mary Stolz

In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great…

— Kit Carson

Printing and transporting paper is very expensive, and e-books eliminate the expensive four-color printing, the higher quality paper, the ocean shipping, the…

— Dan Poynter

A lot of people think the best work I've done was nonfiction - the 'Brothers and Keepers' book. But I think of…

— John Edgar Wideman

At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to…

— Karen DeCrow

I think I'm still fed by my childhood experience of reading, even though obviously I'm reading many books now and a lot…

— Rebecca Stead

If you're a retailer and know that once a year you're going to get Mary Higgins Clark's book on a given date,…

— Michael Korda

I didn't like books where people played on a sports team and won a bunch of games, or went to summer camp…

— Daniel Handler

In many ways the book [Saving Calvinism] is trying to argue for a more popular audience things I've said in some more…

— Oliver D. Crisp

'A Naval History of Britain' which begins in the 7th century has to explain what it means by Britain. My meaning is…

— Nicholas Rodger

Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.

— Samuel Smiles

You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.

— Annie Barrows

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude.

— Voltaire

A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.

— Pico Iyer

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to…

— John Adams

The Age of Reason was responsible for making more people into infidels than any other book except the Bible.

— Gordon Stein

I was afraid you had deceased,' he said. 'Or gotten engrossed in a long book.

— Garrison Keillor

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

— Michael Cunningham

I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.

— Shia LaBeouf

“Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks!" ~ Richard Curtis ~”

— Richard Curtis

The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.

— Anonymous

I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.

— Anonymous

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

— Carlo Goldoni

“I won't read a book whose pages have been dog-eared, because I'm more of a cat person.”

— Jarod Kintz

All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything.

— August Wilson

When I sit down to write a book, I don't ask myself, "How many am I going to sell?"

— Wayne Dyer