Book Quotes · Page 318

But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.

— Emily Dickinson

I read comic books and stuff but I didn't know a lot about it.

— Josh Brolin

'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.

— Edgar Wright

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I usually am thinking about my next book the second I put the last dot on the previous one that I turn…

— Greg Graffin

Promoters don't book you 'cause they like you; they do it 'cause there's good business to be done.

— Ry Cooder

If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

— Mark Pryor

The best self help book I've ever read was, The little Engine that Could.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to 'Gorilla.' It was the first time I felt I…

— Anthony Browne

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books…

— Rick Moody

I've been writing books because it's been my way of dealing with the demons. The act of sitting down and writing the…

— Jimmy Barnes

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a…

— Martin Gardner

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions…

— Bernard Cornwell

I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. "How does one choose a single book among so many?" Isaac shrugged his…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me…

— Gretchen Rubin

It is America, I don't want the government trying to control more of my life. I want less government control, and I…

— Trent Lott

It's just that... working on 'Green Lantern,' I saw how difficult it is to make that concept palatable, and how confused it…

— Ryan Reynolds

“A poor man needs the escape far more than a wealthy man does." "Escape," Amanda repeated, having never heard a book described…

— Lisa Kleypas

When the 2008 victory of Barack Obama and the defeat of grumpy old John McCain began looking, um, inevitable, I started fielding…

— Rick Perlstein

I would go to the beach in my turtle neck, all bundle up. I would read my book and kind of scowl,…

— Rachel McAdams

We usually break the story first. For instance, on The Monuments Men, and this one is more complicated because there's a lot…

— Grant Heslov

The character I created, 'Commissario Brunetti,' who appears in all my books, shares similar reading, artistic and musical tastes with me. Subconsciously,…

— Donna Leon

The thing about angel investing, which I get into in the book a lot is, you actually don't have to understand the…

— Jason Calacanis

I wanted to keep the complexity of the female experience in the film as much as it is in the book, and…

— Erin Cressida Wilson

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.

— Harvey Pekar

The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

— Barry Eisler

The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part.

— Jesse Ball

I'm happiest when I run my home, work, and curl up with a book.

— Mouni Roy

In some ways, certain books are more powerful by far than any battle.

— Henry A. Wallace

I'm definitely a closed book and that's extended through most of my life, not just football.

— Danny Drinkwater

I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.

— Joyce Cary

It's tough to stay married. My wife says no because she's tired then stays up and reads her book.

— Rodney Dangerfield

I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination.

— Vincent Bugliosi

You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue.

— Jeanette Winterson

Don't close the book of life because of stains of the past, just turn the page and start a new life.

— Anonymous

“A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.”

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading.

— Donalyn Miller

If we have to sum up the Book of Revelation in one phrase, it would be, 'Jesus wins.'

— Jud Wilhite

Interestingly enough, Aurthur C. Clarke once autographed a copy of his book "Rendezvous with Rama" for me.

— Frederick Lenz