Book Quotes · Page 314

I bought a new book, '100 new ways to make love'. I ended up in traction - it was a misprint.

— Rodney Dangerfield

I like looking at a book and asking myself, 'How do I replicate that experience I just had as a reader?'

— Jane Goldman

I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

— China Mieville

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

— Patricia Highsmith

It's 2014, and adults are still writing articles about whether other adults should read comic books or not.

— Jamie McKelvie

“I'm still looking for books about them, as well as I am used to feed food every day.”

— Pet Torres

Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

— John Steinbeck

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

— Don Paterson

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise,

— Jacqueline Woodson

Brazil and Germany are very similar, but in Brazil we have a much longer career. There are much more books that have…

— Gabriel Ba

It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

— Victor Hugo

No, but it is something I really enjoy speaking about. You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so…

— Natasha Lyonne

“None of this seems real,” said Alice. “I’m like Alice in Wonderland. Remember how much I hated that book? Because nothing made…

— Liane Moriarty

You can change any status quo, stand out, walk by faith and not by sight and things will definitely go well with…

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

— Henry David Thoreau

Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic…

— Holbrook Jackson

I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts…

— Steve Martin

Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget…

— Jennifer Armstrong

The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men how to…

— Roger Ebert

Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he…

— Harper Lee

Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the…

— Jim Rohn

The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [...]…

— Laura Miller

You could be beaten down by anybody and by everybody and it doesn't matter what everybody else thinks it's how you see…

— Mark Cuban

To Americans Boris Vian has long been one of the hidden glories of French literature. In I Spit on Your Graves, he…

— Jim Krusoe

A lot of people kind of want to wait until you're off a show before they book you into a movie.

— Abby Brammell

I'm very much a people pleaser, and the first book had such a devoted and loving following.

— Celeste Ng

Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit.

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

The process of book writing for me is entirely one of trial and error.

— Geoff Dyer

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

— Louisa May Alcott

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

— Mark Twain

that the book is really good. and theres a prince in it to.

— Gail Carson Levine

“I've never met an author I can't love to hate or a book I haven't paid full price for.”

— Keith M. Weller

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

— Agatha Christie

If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.

— Samuel Wilberforce

“For one person who likes Spain there are a dozen who prefer books on her.”

— Ernest Hemingway

The ultimate guitar players can play every scale in the book.

— Dick Dale

“Books are like horcruxes--without all the evil--because a piece of the author goes into each one.”

— Ella J. Fraser

I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome.

— Donald Glover

To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.

— Elmore Leonard