Book Quotes · Page 491

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how…

— Lauren Willig

I had read some books on the Baha'i Faith. I had read - I was looking into Buddhism and trying to understand…

— Mahershala Ali

Why are people so afraid of giving their kids necessary information that might prevent an unwanted pregnancy or disease? But they're not…

— Ellen Hopkins

A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it…

— Simon Travaglia

We’re all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last,…

— Will Schwalbe

Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so;…

— Jane Austen

Often I would get offers to remake films and that didn't interest me. I have no interest in remaking a film in…

— Sriram Raghavan

The secret to writing is writing. Lots of people I know talk about writing. They will tell me about the book they…

— Michael Scott

Note to self: being Kurt's son, being an ex-mental patient, getting into Harvard, having written a book, and being a doctor are…

— Mark Vonnegut

The thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it. And…

— Lisa Scottoline

Giles: Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower, or a a whiff of smoke can…

— Joss Whedon

In HEATHEN, R. Flowers Rivera remixes the classical and the Biblical, the usual and the typical until what we thought we knew…

— Terrance Hayes

Mary properly bore the name of Virgin, and possessed to the full all the attributes of purity. She was a virgin in…

— Gregory Palamas

I think one of the ways you avoid being angry is to avoid being angry at the people in power. They might…

— Joshua Ferris

“The last man she'd dated said something to her, shortly before they broke up: 'I don't know, maybe I'm boring, but I…

— Joe Hill

The violence and double-talk in the Alice books probably does no harm to children, but the novels should not be allowed to…

— Martin Gardner

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly…

— Harlan Coben

Whenever you do something that's original, not based on a comic book or a novel or an old movie or a franchise,…

— Alfred Gough

All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music,…

— Charles Gates Jr

The blonde student went to the library and checked out a book called How to Hump. She got back to her dorm…

— Nikhil Saluja

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man…

— Marguerite Duras

When I sit down I write very fast... if I haven't finished a book in two or three months then I think…

— Michael Morpurgo

I must have been about 11 when I read the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which I read, over and…

— Steven Knight

If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is…

— Anne Enright

I remember that feeling when I was a young reader: finding books that were set in Sydney with Australian characters was incredibly…

— Justine Larbalestier

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm…

— Anonymous

I read books that say if you want to keep sex hot you tell a person what you want. How do you…

— Elayne Boosler

One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times…

— Flannery O'Connor

The gender inequality in book reviewing isn't getting better. Male authors get the majority of review coverage, and male reviewers do most…

— Lauren Groff

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

— Evelyn Waugh

“The Book that made the nation was destroying the nation; the nation that had taken to the Book was rescued not by…

— Mark A. Noll

The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future…

— Malala Yousafzai

Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want…

— Pseudonymous Bosch

“When becoming a writer don’t think of success, imagine you are throwing your book into a vast ocean with the only hope…

— Mark L Lloyd

When a translator translates my book, it is no longer just my book. It is the translator's book, too. So the book…

— Sam Lipsyte

I think watching a movie that simply confirms my feelings is a waste of time. That applies not only to movies, but…

— Michael Haneke

You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a "graphic novel," but comic…

— Bill Watterson

With 'Luke Cage,' we all, as a collective wanted to tell the truest story that we could but, at the same time,…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Someone told me that each equation I included in my book would halve the sales. I did put in one equation, Einstein's…

— Stephen Hawking