Book Quotes · Page 328

We all make mistakes, nobody ever wrote a book saying 'This is how you live your life.'

— Jeremy Kyle

“Create your world with God's Word in your mouth just say it and it will be accomplished!”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.

— Jilly Cooper

I didn't want to write another winning-on-the-field book or about modern-day leadership.

— Sean Payton

I like to write and that's why I write. I don't think about how much the book will sell.

— Sudha Murty

You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

— Patrick Dempsey

Hitler was a beginner compared to the comic-book industry.

— Fredric Wertham

You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.

— Thomas Keller

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to…

— Andy Rooney

I flipped through a book on harp seals in the late 1970s and saw images of them swimming in emerald green pools…

— Brian Skerry

It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the…

— Walter Scott

All you need is a transformation of the mind. You need to break free of all worldly influence. You do not need…

— Jeremy Limn

I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my…

— Hannah Arendt

Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of…

— James Carroll

He (Tommy Pettitte [father] coached me as kid. He bought all the books and videos and tried to learn as much about…

— Andy Pettitte

Media are focused on comments Michael Jordan made about race which appear in my book. He made those comments years ago, talking…

— Roland Lazenby

“Books on the bookshelves And stacked on the floor Books kept in baskets And propped by the door Books in neat piles…

— L.R. Knost

God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given…

— Corrie Ten Boom

By the time that book So You Want to Be President? came along, we had already had enough presidents that had shown…

— David Small

“This is a book unlike any other on Barack Obama. It is not the typical effusive book of apostolic praise, but neither…

— Dinesh D'Souza

If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people…

— Virginia Woolf

The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading.…

— Virginia Woolf

Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it's not your original work: you're interpreting. With 'L.A. Confidential,' I loved the…

— Brian Helgeland

“partially satisfied by grazing on the first few pages of several books, and as a consequence, there are half-chewed novels lying all…

— Nick Hornby

“If you are reading this, you will get what you want. Believe in yourself and that's inspiration.”

— Chandan Sharma

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

— Rachel Field

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

— Franz Kafka

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

— Walt Whitman

Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.

— Dave Mustaine

I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.

— Karin Slaughter

Life has so many different chapters. One bad chapter does not mean it's the end of the book!

— Anonymous

“Violence always leads to pain" Trendal Malian- Ishtaria: Prince of Blades”

— Keith Collier

I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.

— Ralph Steadman

Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question “Why should I buy this book?

— Guy Kawasaki

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

— Michael Cunningham

I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.

— Mason Cooley

People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.

— Bryce Courtenay

Got an hour or two? That's all it takes for one of my books.

— Mitch Albom

I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.

— James Herbert