Book Quotes · Page 304

“I open the book, the book moans / I cast for the times, the times are gone”

— Anonymous

“Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”

— Daniel Keyes

“Man, you should write a book.’ ‘I know. You couldn’t make this stuff up, could you?”

— Stephanie Wood

I've admired Bill Kauffman's books for years . . . appealing, elegantly written, and entirely American.

— Howard Frank Mosher

“Didn’t anyone share the same passion for books that I did?”

— Meghan Quinn

I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.

— Amy Tan

No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is.

— Nancy Pearl

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

— Philip Roth

Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of…

— Elizabeth Taylor

“It's true that this is not a book you stick on a shelf. This is a story you will instead always carry…

— Terry Goodkind

“I like a lot of talk in a book and I don't like to have nobody tell me what the guy that's…

— John Steinbeck

... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but…

— Nora Ephron

Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is…

— Gautama Buddha

But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a…

— John Frusciante

'Pnin' by Vladimir Nabokov, which is a literally small book, fit right in my common law book. I would sit in class…

— Elizabeth Strout

Having found in many books different methods of going to GOD, and divers practices of the spiritual life, I thought this would…

— Brother Lawrence

Traditional religions practices are important.They allow us to share with others the communal experience of adoration and prayer,but we must never forget…

— Paulo Coelho

Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more willing to take…

— Caroline Leavitt

The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just…

— Italo Calvino

There's a lot of lies out there that we should catch and that have taken me a lot of time to sort…

— Karla Souza

My second husband and I were going through a bitter divorce, and I didn't have the money for a fancy-pants attorney. I…

— Sue Grafton

[A] couple I had known - who were old friends - asked me what I was going to work on next. I…

— Tracy Hickman

He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends

— Victor Hugo

I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

— Alan Bennett

MARRIAGE, Is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the rest of the book is prose;

— Nikhil Saluja

There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Will: I read your book last night. Sean: So you're the one.”

— Ben Affleck

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a part.”

— Anonymous

It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.

— Ray Bradbury

One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.

— Bennett Cerf

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

— Melody Carlson

That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

— Patrick Ness

The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.

— Evan Esar

Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.

— Julia Quinn

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

— Robert Cormier

For me, the whole process involves envisioning this Ghost World comic book in my head as I'm working.

— Daniel Clowes

O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!

— Ellen Glasgow