Books Quotes · Page 131

“Even the most ill-formed words, set to paper, are a great blessing.”

— Ruthanna Emrys

“He said it was the kind of book you made your own.”

— Stephen Chbosky

“A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.”

— Mark Rubinstein

“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.”

— Jessica Brockmole

The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces.

— Paul Halmos

Bite me." -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.

— Anonymous

There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books.

— E. Nesbit

I know every trick in the book, in terms of schemes and fraud.

— Lori Lightfoot

Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

— Nikhil Saluja

“I believe the books we write are the dreams we couldn't find on the bookshelves...”

— Ty Zeiter

May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!

— Kate DiCamillo

We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.

— David McCullough

A novel should tell a story, be a pleasure to read, and at the same time it should be thought-provoking, even a…

— Olga Tokarczuk

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

— Walt Whitman

I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa.

— Tom Barbash

“Printed books are dirt cheap, never run out of power and survive drops, spills and being run over. And their file format…

— David Pogue

“Good writing, on the other hand, teaches the learning writer about style, graceful narration, plot development, the creation of believable characters, and…

— Stephen King

There is only one positive role of the Nobel prize--it creates some common way to understand a writer. I cannot say, that…

— Stanislaw Lem

“ Alessandra wrote: To label this book "Dr. Seuss" is too much. He never yet wrote it, nor genius it touched. It's…

— Bonnie Worth

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood…

— Galileo Galilei

Well it's been about 100 years and every attempt at a comics writers' union has failed miserably. There is, sadly, a long…

— Brian Michael Bendis

“While reading Kasparov’s book How Life Imitates Chess on my Kindle, I idly clicked on “popular highlights” to see what passages other…

— Clive Thompson

I'm an avid reader, and though it doesn't always work out in terms of relaxation, I've got to keep myself up to…

— Sophia Bush

Why do all your friends talk like books?

— Pamela Dean

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.”

— Happyhungrypets

A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

— Chip Kidd

... judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart ...

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Is there any excitement to compare with the opening of a fresh parcel of books?

— William Targ

The Book of Mormon is an inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge.

— Hugh Nibley

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

— Samuel Butler

The best argument is an undeniably good book.

— Saul Bellow

Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!

— Judy Blume

Tantarrara! the joyous Book of Spring Lies open, writ in blossoms.

— William Allingham

“She is both the bookends and the stories between.”

— Kirk Diedrich

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

— William Shatner

Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.

— Julian Barnes

“We note our place with bookmarkers That measure what we've lost.”

— Simon and Garfunkel

Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books…

— Anonymous

The Book of Mormon is to be feasted upon, not nibbled.

— Neal A. Maxwell