Book Quotes · Page 311

But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.

— Khaled Hosseini

In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.

— William Shakespeare

My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.

— Carl Sagan

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

— Voltaire

I was inspired to write children's books, but without blood and gore.

— Stanley Williams

It isn't. The Book of Abraham is not central to the restored gospel of Christ.

— John Gee

Sometimes I'll get a premise, you know, for a book. In fact, I get those quite often. And I don't commit to…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is…

— William Glasser

“Some people say, ‘Do not judge the book by its cover!’ Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say…

— Toba Beta

“Starting the day - Another chance to be new again. How many of us still wish for that? To be your own…

— Carew Papritz

I knew about the music. I got that part but I wanted to know the business, I wanted to know about royalties,…

— Juicy J

My worldview comes from a collection of the books I have read, the people I have met, and my conversations with my…

— Brian Kilmeade

I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a…

— Jhene Aiko

The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in…

— Gore Vidal

“The important thing is not so much to read fast, as to read each book at the speed it deserves. It is…

— Jacques Bonnet

At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some…

— Margaret Mahy

I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my…

— Marya Hornbacher

The apartment was entirely, was only, for her: a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her…

— Claire Messud

In fact, you could make the argument that a historian like Shlomo Aronson does in passing in one of his books, that…

— Nicholson Baker

Each morning at Holy Mass, the Bread of Life will help the body as well as the soul, if we have faith.…

— Edel Quinn

Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when…

— Roberto Bolano

But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain…

— James Lee Burke

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.

— Tom Wolfe

I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds.

— Cassandra Clare

“All I can think is: His head is gone and I don’t know how to merge with the Book. ”

— Karen Marie Moning

Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.

— Lynda Barry

“Pity the soul who finds itself with the wrong book in the wrong place”

— Anonymous

“I once wrote a book ten stories high. Each story was a story.”

— Jarod Kintz

As a 14-year-old with anxiety, to have read about that in a book would have helped me so much.

— Zoe Sugg

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

— Roddy Doyle

“There is no book so bad it does not contain something good.”

— Pliny

It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.

— Carlton Cuse

Piece by piece I sent my first book of poems to American Poetry Review and was rejected one by one.

— David Berman

I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

— Anatole Broyard

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.

— Milan Kundera

The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.

— Anonymous

I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.

— Patricia Cornwell

Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.

— Evgeny Morozov