Book Quotes · Page 320

Bright was the summer of 1296. The war which had desolated Scotland was then at an end.

— Jane Porter

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

— John Larroquette

I’m quite hyper, and my wife would prefer it if I sat down and read a book.

— Jamie Dornan

I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.

— Mohsin Hamid

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.

— Jo Walton

“I love books. I really, really love them. There's something special about bringing people and books together”

— Margaret Truman

I do like comic book movies, but only the ones that I read as a kid.

— Simon Baker

I'm very happy. I like my work and I like the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the…

— Albert Ellis

That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics; all that has survived, and all that has no reason…

— Anthony Lane

Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book…

— Marcia Gay Harden

“This particular book felt familiar, like an old friend. The characters drew me into their world, and I blocked out mine for…

— Rebecca Raisin

The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.

— Iyanla Vanzant

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful…

— Simone Elkeles

I love what I call "re-imagining," where I throw everything up in the air and let it fall in a different way.…

— Megan Chance

In short, if you have any question about whether a particular movie, book, or other form of entertainment is appropriate, don’t see…

— Thomas S. Monson

So the books for the Englishman, as he listened intently or not, had gaps of plot like sections of a road washed…

— Michael Ondaatje

“Now when people ask how I’m doing, I say that, as an American, I’m more worried than ever—but as a person, I’m…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where…

— Imogen Cunningham

An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and…

— Timothy Foote

I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles…

— Isak Dinesen

How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or…

— Stephen King

I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists,…

— Jose Saramago

“He went through rooms he named as he discovered them, and which he hardly had time to appreciate before he'd flung open…

— Chris Adrian

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

— Mark Helprin

“The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defence.”

— John Alfred Langford

The Qura'an is the only book where the Author is in love with the reader ^_^

— I :P

“The best decoration in the world is a room full of books.”

— Billy Baldwin

I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it.

— Paul Harding

A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

— Samuel Johnson

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

— Benjamin Jowett

“. . . you don’t need a happy ending to move onto a happy beginning.”

— Krystal McLean

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I've read the Book of Revelation a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded.

— Megan Fox

I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.

— Nathan Fillion

I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.

— Jonathan Lethem

“Books are used to disprove thoughts, but to nourish them.”

— Reader With a Cause

At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book

— Anne McCaffrey

I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.

— Ann Patchett

And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?

— Elizabeth Kostova