Book Quotes · Page 307

If we wish to quench our thirst, we must lay aside books which explain thirst and take a drink.

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.

— Jeffrey Archer

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog…

— Craig Ferguson

He blinked, then roared with laughter. "Eve Dallas, Vampire Slayer. One for the books." ~Eternity in Death

— Anonymous

I like to think the endings of all my books are open to interpretation.

— Jane Green

“You do everything by the book, like everybody else, you get the same results s everybody else.”

— Jim Butcher

So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Life is like a book, each chapter is a new challenge, and in the end it's a new life

— Neil

I hate picking favourite books. I usually tend to stay away from all the 'top record' and 'favourite song' and 'favourite book',…

— Regina Spektor

Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me),…

— Ellen Hopkins

I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy…

— Ethan Canin

It's always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It's where I come from.

— Salman Rushdie

I became interested in making books, starting about 1965, when I did the Serial Project #1, deciding that I needed a small…

— Sol LeWitt

The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.

— Salman Rushdie

I teach myself archaeology, I teach myself Spanish, and that's because it can be fun, it can be useful. So I keep…

— Philippe Falardeau

The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and…

— Victor Hugo

But to make the intangible tangible, to pick the emotion out of the air and make it true for others, is both…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

For the Tintin books were my emotional universe. To read them felt quite simply like being loved: in advance and by an…

— Luke Davies

“When I Read the Book" When I read the book, the biography famous, And is this then (said I) what the author…

— Walt Whitman

The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30…

— Margaret Haddix

I decided then that if the two people I loved most were safe, I could leave this world. The dead could finally…

— Richelle Mead

Because I actively enjoy sleeping, dreams, the unexplainable dialogues that take place in my head as I am drifting off, all that,…

— William Maxwell

“On rare occasions there comes along a profound original, an odd little book that appears out of nowhere, from the pen of…

— E. J. Banfield

I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that…

— John Guare

I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'

— Sarah Jessica Parker

People like that I wrote a book - that's cute, but oh, making a business out of it? That's not nice.

— Rupi Kaur

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

— Alan Turing

I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars.

— George Carlin

I'm just trying to get kids motivated to be readers by connecting them with a book they like.

— Jon Scieszka

I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.

— Upamanyu Chatterjee

Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times.

— Alexander Pope

A good friend is like a wonderful book, the inside is even better than the cover!

— Anonymous

“The words in his book wormed off the pages. Everything glittered like blank paper.”

— Sylvia Plath

Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.

— Afeni Shakur

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.

— Charles Van Doren

“The book is that is the good one is Woodsong and we are trying to finish it.”

— Gary Paulsen

I'm always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn't stop.

— Jocko Willink