Book Quotes · Page 309

How to succeed in business without really trying (title of book)

— Shepherd Mead

I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.

— Helen Keller

“Writing a book is like giving birth. Marketing a book is like giving birth in the 12th century.”

— John Heartfield

A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

— Jane Austen

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

— Rebecca West

Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.

— Tibor Fischer

“There are as many versions of a book as there are readers.”

— Matt Haig

Like books and black lives - albums still matter. Tonight and always.

— Prince

“Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along.…

— Mavis Gallant

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

— Anne Rice

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

— John Howe

I think each book has its own way of accommodating my concerns, whether it's about race, America, technology, the city.

— Colson Whitehead

My lack of access to the real world has been replaced completely by books, and it can’t be healthy to live in…

— Colleen Hoover

I've been really lucky to get on shows that stay on. It's one thing to book a show, and it's like winning…

— Coby Bell

You can't have a favourite meal, like you can't have a favourite movie or a favourite book or a favourite child.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

I take my books everywhere. Plane journeys are a good opportunity to study, or also when I'm having my hair done.

— Lily Cole

So many gay jokes tonight about (James) Franco. Apparently if you're clean, well dressed and mildly cultured, you're super gay now. Is…

— Aziz Ansari

I really knew almost nothing about Silicon Valley. I read that Steve Jobs book and watched a bunch of documentaries, and read…

— Zach Woods

You could probably go all the way back to the first books. I bet people said 'why should you read when you…

— Mark Zuckerberg

Writing a novel, in an unplanned and unpredictable way, makes you engaged; it takes you into yourself, and it becomes something between…

— David Bezmozgis

Ivy [Wilkes] does exhibit a certain impatience at the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers]. She doesn't want to wait through years…

— Liza Campbell

If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I…

— Philip Pullman

Harvey sought for truth in Truth's own book- Creation - which by God himself was writ;And wisely thought 'twas fitNot to read…

— William Harvey

Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

— Ma Jian

I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.

— Mark Haddon

Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.

— Anonymous

There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see.

— Anne Rice

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.

— Malcolm Miller

No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

— Thomas Carlyle

Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.

— Ruth Ozeki

I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

— Marcus Buckingham

I won't say 'never,' but I have no plans to write an eighth book.

— J. K. Rowling

Am I allowed to ask my book / whether it's true I wrote it?

— Pablo Neruda

Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.

— Thomas Pynchon

Candide is one of those books I read when I was young and that I come back to regularly.

— Mark Ravenhill

Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.

— Alan Bennett

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

— Marilyn vos Savant

I am addicted to the printed word, and my idea of a good time is a good book.

— Julianne Malveaux

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald