Book Quotes · Page 45

Books don't harm kids; they arm them.

— Mem Fox

“A book is a good thing to read.”

— Doug Soderstrom

I don't think I read an entire book in high school.

— Nina Agdal

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

— Diane Duane

Most of my books came from when I was telling stories.

— Robert Munsch

A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

— Gary Paulsen

“Never judge a book by it's movie.”

— Anonymous

It's very nice to meet the people who read my books.

— Peter Mayle

Hell, I'm going to play pro basketball. I'm going to maybe be famous. I'm going to write books.

— John Edgar Wideman

“Bullets aren't going to better the world, but books can, and will.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

— Hortense Calisher

“Until you opened it, the book was nothing that an untrained eye would look twice at.”

— Geraldine Brooks

“Every good book should take you to a brand new world: enjoy the journey!”

— Lynn Hardy

“Great books help you understand, and they help you to feel understood.”

— John Green

Few Amazon punters will explore a book with the depth of an 800-word review.

— Lionel Shriver

Really, if I'm honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes - I'm a big comic-book fan.

— Seth Rogen

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

— Sara Gruen

I wanted to create a book that was unafraid of black bodies, yet super interested in thinking about the relationship of love…

— Kiese Laymon

“Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don’t have the fucking part in writing a book.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we…

— Robert Orben

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they…

— Kathryn Stockett

In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and…

— Barack Obama

“Ladies, get confident about yourselves, build up your self-worth and esteem, love yourself and be proud of your achievements and your man…

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“Just keep her away from bookstores, if you can." Bookstores. Thanks, Grayson. That helps. Apparently whoever said, "no harm ever came from…

— Jena Leigh

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

“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

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

I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me…

— M. C. Escher

It's a beautiful book [Into the Forest], so for those who are thinking about reading it, they absolutely should. First and foremost,…

— Ellen Page

That's what this country needs -- more books!

— Christopher Morley

I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

— Jesse Ball

“. . . everywhere a good and a bad book”

— Thomas Carlyl

“Wondrous indeed is the virtue of a true Book.”

— Thomas Carlyle

It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.

— Douglas Adams

Life is too short to read inferior books.

— James Bryce

I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

— Charles Lamb

Because each book has its own special perfume.

— Jack Gantos