Book Quotes · Page 303

Of course, each of us has to write our own book, live our own life.

— Thomas L. Dumm

For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.

— John Updike

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

— Jack Vance

I'd much rather have a book that a few people love intensely than a book that a lot of people like okay.

— Mac Barnett

“Your book is awesome! It makes me want to go out and become a chef!” Henry C. Smith, San Francisco April 2014”

— Dr. Vivienne Kruger

The first time I remember really being excited about a book was 'The Count of Monte Cristo.'

— Scott Turow

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

“People say everybody has a book inside them, so why not make your life a great story?”

— Martha Louise Hunter

There are many books in the library, each with its own story to tell. But as you fall in love, reality becomes…

— Boys Be

God loves all his children, somehow we've forgotten, but we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago.

— Macklemore

There's nothing more fabulous than an adult saying to you, "I think that you might like this one [book]." So I'm grateful…

— Kate DiCamillo

I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and…

— Alberto Manguel

I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day.…

— Gary Ross

The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind…

— Nicholas G. Carr

I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people in…

— Erin Cummings

I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since…

— Barry Corbin

At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays,…

— Joyce Kilmer

I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I'm a product of state schools. I had a working-class family. We had no books. I was the first to go to…

— T.C. Boyle

The Bible is really not a religious book but a divine manual written by the manufacturer of humanity by which the product…

— Myles Munroe

You know what? I feel my book is kind of pointless. I didn't want to do a book, but rather than tell…

— Al Jourgensen

Love your material. Nothing frightens the inner critic more than the writer who loves her work. The writer who is enamored of…

— Allegra Goodman

In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a…

— Kage Baker

The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to…

— Daniel Hannan

I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

— Jeffery Deaver

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

— Moliere

As long as we’ve got somewhere to sleep, a bowl of cereal, and a coloring book we’ll be fine.

— Louis Tomlinson

Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones.

— Richard Dawkins

What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?

— Diane Setterfield

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone.

— Anonymous

I have gone to more book signings and product launches than I can remember.

— Jill Zarin

“A good book will keep you fascinate for days, a good book shop your whole life!”

— Waterstones

“Usiangalie nyuma kujutia vitu ulivyovifanya, angalia nyuma kujifunza kutokana na makosa uliyofanya.”

— Enock Maregesi

Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Aside from comic book heroes, the only real life heroes I had were musicians.

— Andy Biersack

I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.

— Morris Gleitzman

All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.

— Annie Dillard

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

— Bernard Malamud

There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.

— Vince Flynn

Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.

— Dan Brown