Book Quotes · Page 302

My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

— Deb Caletti

Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art.

— Peter H. Reynolds

“Forget yesterday, Act on Today and Get a hold on tomorrow.”

— Agu Jaachynma N E

“My boy? he is even better than books. -fiction has nothing on you.”

— Amanda Lovelace

Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.

— Richard Allington

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“This Book is Dedicated to Black Girls Everywhere. You are Powerful. You are Beautiful. You are Loved.”

— Daniel José Older

Once you finish reading a book , you find out how different you are from other people.

— MlY AB

I think there's going to be something that happens now, where books move in two directions, one toward digitized formats and one…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Every brilliant book I read is an influence and an inspiration. As is every brilliant movie I watch and every brilliant box…

— Lisa Jewell

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can…

— Clive Barker

I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to…

— Lou Reed

Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It's still under…

— Loretta Chase

I haven't thought about writing so much as potentially producing and finding my own projects to get into production. I want to…

— Mandy Moore

Chico: "Here's the book, it's a dollar" Groucho: "Here's a ten, and shoot the change." Chico: "I don't have change I'd have…

— Groucho Marx

When you never leave the literary biosphere, you forget how few people actually read books, and that in turn makes you start…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“There are people who read books, and then there are people who define their lives by the books they have read and…

— Jeffrey Keeten

I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

No other serial publications carry a number on them that is of any weight to their readership. The number is there to…

— Tom Brevoort

For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night.…

— Robert Kennedy

It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I wanted to be an artist after all, and my teachers told me these were the best authors the 20th century had…

— Simon Rich

As you've witnessed, Catwoman is the ultimate diva. From the pages of comic books to both small and big screens, Catwoman continues…

— Eartha Kitt

The story of your life has many chapters. One bad chapter, doesn't mean the end of the book.

— Chloe

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Read the most useful books, and that regularly and constantly.

— John Wesley

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

I have a new book coming out, so I do movie, book, movie, book, movie, book, every place we go.

— Adriana Trigiani

It draws you in and creates pictures, so what I do is almost like a talking story book.

— Slick Rick

I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

— Marjane Satrapi

The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.

— Richard P. Feynman

A good book, or a good show leaves a lot of unanswered questions but makes you think.

— Noah Schnapp

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.

— Ahmet Zappa

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

— Sholem Asch

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

— Ernest Hemingway

I love The Purple Book. It continually helps reinforce the only foundation worth building upon— a biblical one.

— Peter Furler

One always likes one's latest book best. That's a natural feeling.

— Truman Capote

I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.

— Frank McCourt

Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.

— Anonymous