Book Quotes · Page 333

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

— P. L. Travers

Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves.

— Jonathan Messinger

“You must feel it from within. You must want to write the book. You must desire to write the book”

— Emily Gowor

That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England

— Queen Victoria

I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.

— Jay McShann

“I never found a book that did not have at least a little magic in it”

— William Ritter

“The problem with reading a good book is trying to cope after it's finished.”

— Devonnie A. Black

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

— Christina Ricci

I'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel.

— Nathan Englander

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything.

— Jay Asher

“Bill said I was 'developing' at a rapid pace and gave me a different kind of book as a 'reward'. It's On…

— Stephen Chbosky

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the…

— Ernest Hemingway

I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.

— Masha Tupitsyn

I don't suppose that I know more about life than anyone of my age, but it seems to me that, in the…

— Joseph Brodsky

Every author believes that the book which he is placing before the public will 'fill a long-felt want,' and success or failure…

— Will C. Barnes

One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within…

— Edmond de Goncourt

Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are…

— William Ellery Channing

Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever…

— Paul Auster

When I was a kid, I remember the first Batman, the first Superman comic books when they came out, thinking how great…

— Clint Eastwood

I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to…

— Marisha Pessl

“Books are memory. They remember their contents and pass them on. They keep track of who claims ownership, who they were given…

— Eileen Gunn

I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book.…

— John Cage

Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a…

— Neal Shusterman

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

— Anonymous

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.

— Karin Slaughter

I read Mitch Daniels's book, 'Keeping the Republic,' several times.

— Eric Greitens

It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

— Cornelia Funke

“the books shot off the shelf like academic projectile puke.”

— Leigh Evans

The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.

— Edmund Spenser

'One With You' was the hardest book I have ever written. I rewrote it three times.

— Sylvia Day

I like to read all kinds of books ranging from spiritual, philosophical, to best-sellers and crime thrillers.

— Mukul Dev

“there’s a bigger social reward for being able to talk about books than for actually reading them.”

— William Deresiewicz

The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.

— Milton Berle

As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text.

— John Green

The Bible's the greatest book ever written. But I sure don't need anybody I can buy for six bits and a chew…

— Huey Long

I'm pretty excited for people to listen to the story of each song. It's definitely like a giant book with different stories…

— Melanie Martinez

Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I want the 'Book of Basketball' to do well if only so I can shop an absolutely ridiculous topic for my next…

— Bill Simmons