Book Quotes · Page 323

I felt that no self-help book had been written for millennials yet, so my ultimate goal was to write it.

— Mark Manson

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

If you have a question about anything, the answer can be found in a book somewhere in the library.

— Bill Cosby

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures…

— Anthony Trollope

No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.

— Adam Carolla

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

— Larry Hagman

There are books that I read years ago that enlivened things in me that haven't died yet.

— George Saunders

I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.

— Steven Curtis Chapman

I was incredibly lucky that my first book found a large and loyal readership. It changed my life - from being a…

— Daniel Tammet

I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of…

— Adrienne Monnier

When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it…

— Roald Dahl

You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey…

— Artie Lange

“...I believe it important to emphasize how strongly I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others…

— Elie Wiesel

Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to…

— Jaron Lanier

When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.

— Virginia Woolf

My favorite new character isn't new, but more fleshed out - Gadd, the alekeep at the Tunnel. He's got him some teeth…

— Paul S. Kemp

And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our…

— John Perkins

I do think there's a relationship between a book and a reader that's more intimate, in many ways, than the relationship between…

— Sarah Ruhl

Ezra clapped his hands. "all right," he said. "In addition to the books we're reading as a class, I want to do…

— Sara Shepard

What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.……

— Noah Richler

“I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding…

— philip pullman

It's a beautiful book [Into the Forest], so for those who are thinking about reading it, they absolutely should. First and foremost,…

— Ellen Page

I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so…

— Ray Bradbury

I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me…

— M. C. Escher

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

— Lorenz Hart

I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.

— Sheryl Sandberg

If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.

— Barbara Corcoran

“...too much time spent with books had not fitted her to be easy with herself, and other people.”

— Jo Baker

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

— Henry Fielding

My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.

— Pat Conroy

Worthy books Are not companions – they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.

— Philip James Bailey

Life is like a book: one has to know when to turn the page.

— Hubert de Givenchy

“Better be wrong to a stranger than be wrong to your husband - Treacherous Desires Book”

— Kritika Sharma

“I don't know, maybe you'd be more interested in me if I were a book.”

— Joe Hill

Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun

— Saul Williams

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

— Richard Flanagan

“I like nothing better in this world than a good clean book, brother.”

— Anthony Burgess

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.

— Edith Piaf