Book Quotes · Page 331

Don't give me books for Christmas; I already have a book.

— Jean Harlow

When I read books it's to escape. It's so I don't have to talk to people.

— Stephen Colbert

The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.

— Diane Setterfield

“What really goes on behind the scenes at the Romance Book Club?”

— Michelle Hughes

The original theme of 'Beauty and the Beast' is don't judge a book by its cover. Love what's inside.

— Jay Ryan

“A book gets rejected because it's not ready to be published.”

— Gina Nahai

Whatever we put out, it's coming back to us. The universe keeps a perfect set of books.

— Marianne Williamson

“because a book lets your imagination soar and a movie makes all the decisions for you. A book is almost always, but…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

“Library? That sounded reasonable. As my thoughts revolved around my days surrounded by books, something miraculous happened. My anger subsided. It ebbed…

— Rebecca Maizel

My first audition for 'The Magicians' came up in conversation with a close friend who, right then, handed me the first book.

— Hale Appleman

I’m one of those very lucky people who absolutely love what they do for a living. There is no career better suited…

— Mary Pope Osborne

“Sometimes, before you make any plans or resolutions, before you declare your heroic intent to persevere, you just have to cry.”

— Jaclyn Dolamore

Teacher: Where is your book? Student: At home. Teacher: What's it doing there? Student: Having more fun than me.

— Anonymous

[Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope…

— Harrison Ford

It was pure guesswork on my part back in 1979 as to whether I would have the stamina to write, pencil, ink,…

— Dave Sim

The Bible must be the invention of either good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. It could not…

— John Wesley

Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not…

— Cassandra Clare

I collect art on a very modest scale. Most of what I have is photography because I just love it and it…

— Chris Parnell

I was in a store in Halifax, Nova Scotia that I love, sort of like an environmental friendly sort of store. But…

— Ellen Page

I've made movies that were adaptations and I've been kind of frustrated by the process because, you know that old axiom, 'It's…

— Amber Heard

It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to…

— Czeslaw Milosz

I haven't been reading anything on tour so far, I haven't had a minute. Any moment that I've had recently on the…

— Carla Azar

“Raney flipped the book over and looked at the jacket cover, realized it was one of the books Bo had left at…

— Carol Cassella

I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.

— John Bunyan

I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine.

— Mason Cooley

I get annoyed with movies or books, songs or records that deliberately try to make you feel a certain way.

— M. Ward

“Books should be full of stuff you could never say to people in public.”

— Alain de Botton

“Don't turn around in circles for making circles do not equate making progress.”

— Agu Jaachynma N E

For those of you haven't read the book, it's being published tomorrow

— David Frost

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

— Italo Calvino

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

— Connie Willis

Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.

— Bruno Bettelheim

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.

— Charles Stross

“But it's like the feeling you get at the end of a book you love.”

— Stuart Murdoch

A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.

— Myrtle Reed

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

— Henry David Thoreau

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

— Anonymous

“I started with a book, and that led me to a library, and that led me everywhere.”

— Terry Pratchett

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

— Carl Sagan