Book Quotes · Page 326

“This book will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from this book.”

— William D. Hendricks

“This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite.”

— Victor Hugo

“If writing a book were easy everyone would be doing it. Oh, wait, everyone is.”

— Simone Pond

I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there.

— Marni Jackson

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

— John Quincy Adams

I only read the left-hand pages, so I finish books twice as fast.

— Martellus Bennett

“Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books.”

— J. D. Salinger

As far as characters are concerned, Alan Partridge makes me wet myself. I'm currently reading the book and have started talking like…

— Greg Davies

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that…

— Michael Lewis

“Presumably, everyone reading this book is a Homo sapiens – the species sapiens (wise) of the genus Homo (man).”

— Yuval Noah Harari

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is…

— Amy Ray

Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me; I…

— Kate DiCamillo

Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really…

— Veronica Roth

Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character…

— Melissa Bank

I'd say that [Louis] Brandeis practiced a kind of a "living originalism," to use the title of Jack Balkin's great book. He…

— Jeffrey Rosen

I don't have sophisticated tastes. I have average tastes. If you looked in my collection of DVDs, you'd see 'Jaws' and 'Star…

— Simon Cowell

One book that has meant much to my writing is W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants. He uses a photograph of Vladimir Nabokov hunting…

— Samantha Hunt

But if you can expand that consciousness, make it grow, then when you read about that book, you'll have more understanding; when…

— David Lynch

As many people have pointed out, the scene in ‘Kung Fu Hustle’ where the Landlady was chasing after me resembled the Roadrunner,…

— Stephen Chow

I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in…

— Lloyd Jones

The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

[T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in…

— Sheri S. Tepper

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're…

— Tom Clancy

“Someone said to me," Make a book title digestible." I’ll start: Curry Potter and the Sorcerer's Sauce.”

— Aron Micko H.B

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

— Lynn Abbey

I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.

— Audrey Niffenegger

Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.

— Jack Vance

“I JUST FINISHED READING WOLF RIDER SUCH A GOOD BOOK...YOU HAVE TO TO READ IT!!!!”

— Avi

I have all the time and space in the world when I write a book.

— Diana Gabaldon

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

— George Bernard Shaw

“I don't really read as much but I am reading a depressing book on the Holocaust…”

— Patricia Reilly Giff

When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.

— Jon Krakauer

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

— George Sand

I sometimes think I should write a book. I've seen some things, you know, but it's all there in the songs.

— Dizzee Rascal

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

— Mark Twain

You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book.

— Paul Erdos

I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.

— Rachel Cohn

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

— Philip Yancey