Book Quotes · Page 313

Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.

— Carolyn Wells

“Reading a non-fiction book is like a religious experience.”

— Rachel Perry

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

— David Walliams

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

— John Milton

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

— Oscar Wilde

If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.

— Warren Buffett

Someone asked me what book I read of the summer. I replied with, "Facebook."

— Anonymous

I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

— Dorothy Parker

I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is…

— Jarvis Cocker

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be…

— Khaled Hosseini

I have Black guys who tell me they put my books on their bed stands to read at night like something for…

— Ishmael Reed

With the success of 'Black Privilege,' of course, the book publishers wanted me to come with another book immediately. They came with…

— Charlamagne tha God

The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ask yourself, what makes my book so different? So interesting? Don’t write to be a best seller. Write for and from your…

— Leon Nacson

I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of them is…

— Maurice Sendak

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material…

— Thomas Carlyle

Writing is a process and you must trust the process! Fear and anxiety are part of that process along with the enthusaism…

— Sue Grafton

For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves…

— Stefan Zweig

As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind’s first small step on…

— Charles Bolden

I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would…

— Anonymous

“I try to write the books I would love to come upon, that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual…

— Anne Lamott

A candle is a living, flickering light. It can easily be blown out. As we watch a candle burn we see the…

— Gunilla Brodde Norris

I'm concerned that the world is a mess. That's why when I wrote my last book, Let's Face It, I dedicated it…

— Kirk Douglas

Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be…

— Sherman Alexie

I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.

— Olga Kurylenko

Each book I write is a shout into the silence and a prayer and a plea for change.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“My Title as Author Will Always Stand Tall If Nobody Buys My Books, I Will Not Fall”

— Charmaine J. Forde

The whole thing about my books and my life is that I create drama's always around me.

— Chelsea Handler

Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

— Raoul Vaneigem

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

— Mark Twain

“The world is like a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

— Old Smell of Books

“One of the most valuable things you can gain from any book is a list of other books that are worth reading.”

— Dave Hoover

I love going on book tours because it's an opportunity to connect with the people that matter most to my brand.

— Lauren Conrad

It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.

— Will Shetterly

Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did.

— Patrick Ness

For me, a holiday is about taking a book and going to a mountain and reading.

— Sonam Kapoor

“my book, the sky tells no lies is on sale at amazon.com”

— Don Derkach

I'll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don't always have one on the go.

— Jonathan Pryce

She is a book... but don't force her to open every chapter of her book...

— Ronakpanchalrr

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

— Wally Lamb