Book Quotes · Page 79

“It was like living entirely inside a book.”

— Diane Setterfield

Books don't harm kids; they arm them.

— Mem Fox

It's hard to make a book episodic.

— Sam Heughan

The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

A one-word book does appeal to me.

— Kode9

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

— Diane Duane

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

— Robert Munsch

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

— Nina Agdal

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

— Don Winslow

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

— Sam Brownback

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

— Charlie Chaplin

Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!

— Anonymous

“I understood books. I did not understand boys—especially alien boys.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say.

— James Howe

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

— Bill Gates

The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think,

— Wendy Doniger

“I intended to make it sound guileless and rather sweet but you will see in it the little blades of social criticism…

— John Steinbeck

I feel a lot of pressure when I'm writing because I know, you know, if they looked at a synopsis of the…

— Jesmyn Ward

There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare.…

— John Mortimer

The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home…

— Ann Voskamp

It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired.…

— Jonathan Kellerman

I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just…

— Leni Zumas

As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of…

— Nicole Kidman

They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it.

— Paulo Coelho

Mr. Fresh looked up. "The book says if we don't do our jobs everything could go dark, become like the Underworld. I…

— Christopher Moore

Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an…

— Andrew O'Hagan

A piece of art - this goes for a painting or a sculpture or a book or whatever - really shouldn't have…

— Max Kellerman

“As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she…

— Frederick Weisel

Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That’s because my books are not to…

— Antonio Lobo Antunes

I've always enjoyed stories that take place in the future but my one disappointment was that the future books described never came.…

— Albert Brooks

Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the…

— Flann O'Brien

There are innumerable writing problems in an extended work. One book took a little more than six years. You, the writer, change…

— David McCullough

“A book is a good thing to read.”

— Doug Soderstrom

Sometimes when you open a book, time stops.

— Ned Vizzini

A room without books is like a life without meaning.

— Thomas Jefferson

I never really thought I'd be writing a book.

— Nate Bargatze

“Ignore donkeys and other naysayers!”

— Mary Buchan

Rereading, we find a new book.

— Mason Cooley

Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.

— Pat Conroy

You need to be the CEO of your own book.

— Ravi Subramanian