Book Quotes · Page 305

Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.

— Tom DeLonge

“A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands,”

— Anonymous

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

— Richard Scarry

“Theory is like a book. It's full of meaningless words, a few want to read it and where stays the movie.”

— Tim Goossens

I wish my BOOK OF LIFE was written in pencil,there are few pages I would like to erase,

— Anonymous

Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.

— Roy Blount, Jr

A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

— Jackie French

Books like Twilight are what you get when you let women out of the kitchen.

— Nikhil Saluja

It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just…

— Henry Fielding

After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was…

— Anonymous

I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.

— Tom Peters

I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from…

— Matt Dillon

You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I never really thought I'd be successful. I never though I'd get books published, but this was something completely beyond me. The…

— Walter Mosley

I'm very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

Why was it librarians had such a prim image? With all the information available in books right there at their fingertips, librarians…

— Charlaine Harris

With The Myth of Achievement Tests, James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, and Tim Kautz have offered a wealth of insightful analysis…

— Eric A. Hanushek

Anything, even the conceptually most complex material, can be written for general audiences without any dumbing down. Of course you have to…

— Stephen Jay Gould

One of my earliest memories is of seeing my mother in her beach chair, reading a book under an umbrella by the…

— Luanne Rice

“The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

If you're happy with where the Internet, Facebook, and Twitter have taken you, I'm not the Grinch. Someone called me Sherry Turkle's…

— Sherry Turkle

Words alone are inadequate to express spiritual realities. This book expresses the Red Indian spirit because it combines the best photographs ever…

— Thomas Yellowtail

The weekly cartoons, as were my plays, came from a sense of criticism, criticism of the times, critical of the culture, of…

— Jules Feiffer

Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange,…

— Chris Kyle

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

— Dorothy Allison

Pages turn, chapters end...eventually you have to close the book.

— Roberta Metalious

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

— Dirk Benedict

No one thinks that young adults read hooks for YOUNG ADULTS, books for young adults are read by kids.

— Terry Pratchett

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

— Edward Abbey

“If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write? Now, write that book.”

— M. Kirin

I'm a huge comic book fan, and I've read a lot from all different comic book outlets.

— Jaimie Alexander

I wrote 'I'm Me' because I was asked to write a children's book.

— Sara Sheridan

“Habent sua fata libelli. (Books have their own destinies.)”

— Terentianus Maurus

I loved the theatre-my dad gave me many plays and books to read. The dramatic form just spoke to me.

— Danny Burstein

The fact that a book or publication is popular does not necessarily make it of value.

— Ezra Taft Benson

“The author was an invisible point from which the books came”

— Italo Calvino

To be quite honest, the joyful relief of the publication of my book was short-lived.

— Amanda Knox

A man who is ignorant of books is one with whom no discussion is possible.

— Vikrant Parsai

I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.

— Lynn Redgrave

“I decided to read a Lena Skye book to take my mind off things to come.”

— Lena Skye