Book Quotes · Page 9

Never index your own book.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Books are good”

— Harrison Higgs

My books keep me occupied.

— Akshara Haasan

Yeah, I'm an open book.

— Amy Winehouse

Books were my first love.

— Maisie Peters

A book is a book is a book.

— Maurice Sendak

A wicked book cannot repent

— Proverb

Great books conserve time.

— Holbrook Jackson

I sometimes read books on my iPad.

— David Sedaris

With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.

— John Locke

I will write another book if I feel like it.

— James Herriot

Books are not life, only its ashes.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“The Brothers Karamazov is a joyful book.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I love books. That is all.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

I begin each book with a challenge to myself.

— Laura Lippman

I am a beau in nothing but my books.

— Adam Smith

My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.

— Mario Benedetti

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

— George Bernard Shaw

The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.

— Dan DeCarlo

The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me.

— John Kluge

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.

— Neil Gaiman

“Always have a camera in your hand and a book.in your bag.”

— Lauren Rachelle

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.

— Haruki Murakami

I think each book has its own way of accommodating my concerns, whether it's about race, America, technology, the city.

— Colson Whitehead

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

— John Howe

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

— Anne Rice

“Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along.…

— Mavis Gallant

I take my books everywhere. Plane journeys are a good opportunity to study, or also when I'm having my hair done.

— Lily Cole

You can't have a favourite meal, like you can't have a favourite movie or a favourite book or a favourite child.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

I've been really lucky to get on shows that stay on. It's one thing to book a show, and it's like winning…

— Coby Bell

My lack of access to the real world has been replaced completely by books, and it can’t be healthy to live in…

— Colleen Hoover

In animation and comics, the viewer breezes past the drawings. But with picture books, each page is going to be stared at…

— Vera Brosgol

You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how…

— Joseph Campbell

I'm being provided with some emotional ballast by giving me an intimate portrait of one character in particular in contrast to the…

— Joshua Ferris

As a child I loved fantasy books, I loved Harry Potter and the idea that there is something 'out there' is inspiring…

— Alexandra Daddario

I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and…

— Alex Haley

The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and…

— Philip Pullman

For more than three years, I'd been part of a complex and frustrating dance as my nonfiction, fact-based material was translated from…

— A'Lelia Bundles

I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every…

— Harvey Pekar