Book Quotes · Page 324

For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.

— Daniel Clowes

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

— Francis Quarles

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

— Anonymous

Movies are different from books and you need to be open to go into that difference.

— Violante Placido

“It is impossible to get rid of a book, once I take a look inside.”

— Eugenia O'Neal

He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

— John Donne

Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea.

— Margaret Atwood

“I suppose a book is still a book, even if no one but the author and his wife reads it," she said.”

— John Wyndham

Every time we pick up a book from a sense of duty and we find that we're struggling to get through it,…

— Nick Hornby

Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a…

— William Shakespeare

When former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote his recent book, 'Duty', it was full of tough assessments and candor.

— John Dickerson

The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter,…

— Anais Nin

Where are you originally from?” “The planet Lorien, three hundred million miles away.” “Must have been a long trip, John Smith.” “Took…

— Pittacus Lore

In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, 'Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.'

— Maryrose Wood

I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have…

— Floyd Abrams

I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves…

— Sean Astin

I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug…

— Mike Tyson

I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are…

— Justin Timberlake

[Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some…

— Blaise Pascal

At age 14, my belief systems began to change about myself, about God, about humans, about values, and about moral standards. I…

— Myles Munroe

“I don't give any book a big chance. If it isn't interesting from the get-go, I let go. Sure I paid for…

— Jon Spoelstra

Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get…

— Donald Miller

The whole process of having to put the thing into the world seems so antithetical to the act of writing. Poetry is…

— Nick Laird

It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book.…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Think of this book as a new genre altogether—a when-to book.”

— Daniel H. Pink

Mind your picture uploads cos your face is on the book we are reading!

— Jozenga

I am listening to a book by the guy who founded Nike, and I can relate to it. He struggled.

— Kyle Walker

No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

— Seneca the Younger

This is a much more fitting interpretation of the book than its modern interpretation.

— Robert Vaughan

His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another.

— William Joyce

“I fuck with every book, and if I don’t leave a mark, there’s no orgasm.”

— Carlos María Domínguez

I don't want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the…

— Julie Burchill

I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.

— Catherine Jinks

If you are going to judge a book by its cover, don't be disappointed if the story tells a different tale.

— Kos

I've managed to persuade Yoko Ono to put some of her work in my Penguin book!

— Timothy Morton

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help

— Alice Hoffman

The information I most want is in books not yet written by people not yet born.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.

— Stephen King

My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.

— Chuck Palahniuk