Book Quotes · Page 315

Don't judge a book by its cover means not to judge people or things by what they look like from the outside.

— Anonymous

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

— Susie Bright

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

— Richard Brautigan

“My son 8yo:"The best thing about books it does not need recharge”

— Anonymous

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.

— Tom Bissell

Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses.

— Winston Churchill

If you read books forever and ever, they will never replace what really counts - that's practical experience.

— Hal Needham

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

— Groucho Marx

I think one thing I've learned, as dorky and obvious as this sounds: People who like cool books are usually really cool…

— Kevin Sampsell

A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a…

— Jon Katz

If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“a book is the pinnacle of arrogance for it demands to be heard, but it cannot listen. It desires to communicate, yet…

— Alec Hutson

I never imagined while going through this horrifying illness that I would write a book or that it could ever be a…

— Susannah Cahalan

I believe that the devil has destroyed many good books of the church, as, aforetime, he killed and crushed many holy persons,…

— Martin Luther

I think when you're a fan of a book you do have your own little version of the characters and I hope…

— Killian Scott

Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found…

— Benjamin Franklin

However, to modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consiously accept the hard work of identifying the cues…

— Charles Duhigg

You don't write a book. You write a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page and then a chapter. Looking…

— Rebecca Serle

I've got a folder full of rejection slips that I keep. Know why? Because those same editors are now calling my agent…

— MaryJanice Davidson

Things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take…

— Warwick Davis

I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new…

— Ellen DeGeneres

I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as…

— Ann Patchett

You can lose a reader in a blink of an eye. If a person is an engineer or chemist or an anthropologist…

— Robert Caro

If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though…

— Rosellen Brown

I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

— Anonymous

As a former ballerina, I can't put down Maggie Shipstead's new book, Astonish Me.

— Caitlin Moran

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

— Leon Uris

Education is what you learn in books, and nobody knows you know it but your teacher.

— Virginia Cary Hudson

“reading is like an aeroplane it allows you to travell all over with just a book in your hand”

— Annakay Gordon

The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.

— John McCain

“You can overcome whatever is going on around you if you believe in the light that lives within you.”

— Justine Edward

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

— Liam Neeson

There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.

— Heinrich Heine

“Dammit, why isn’t there a book with the answers in it?”

— Cherise Sinclair

Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.

— Walter Benjamin

“If you were given a book with the story of your life, would you read the end?”

— Anonimus

I can only do the best I can from what I read from the book, and hopefully it translates on camera.

— Lana Condor

Book marketing is like opening doors for your readers to find you, not a stick you hit them with.

— Heather Hart

Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

— Mark Twain