Books Quotes · Page 84

If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.

— Jackie Kennedy

“The sole/soul purpose of a book is to be read.”

— Dani J Caile

“When you love a book it loves you back.”

— Bret Easton Ellis

I've come to think of myself as a writer of books.

— Richard Hell

Nobody writes a book to get rich. It's like speaking.

— Simon Sinek

I can read and write. I went to school for six years. I just couldn't continue.

— Angel Cabrera

Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

— Douglas Adams

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

— Barbara Tuchman

I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.

— Larry Moss

A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.

— Giorgio Baglivi

After college, I spent a decade working the kinds of jobs that I write about - bartender, shoe salesman, kitchen man -…

— George Pelecanos

There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

— Howard Aiken

Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever…

— Robin Wasserman

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author…

— Felix Dennis

Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Readers of this memo will be disappointed to know that Bong-Bong Gad (sic), designer/owner/driver/proprietor of the vehicle, anticipated the inevitable "there but…

— Neal Stephenson

When Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 88, she was the oldest person ever to receive…

— Justin Cartwright

I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or…

— J. K. Rowling

He[ Italo Calvino] always said it would be impossible to try to make films out of his books, though he hoped it…

— Giovanna Cau

Music makes me alive in a way that nothing quite does. Good art, good film, good books, good dance. Exhibitions, history. Nature…

— Emily Saliers

A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“By the time we were knit in our mothers' wombs, our lives were like open books before Him--every sentence read, every paragraph…

— Beth Moore

“If there is progress then there is a novel.”

— William Carlos Williams

“To be a devout reader was to be an acolyte of solace.”

— Tanya Egan Gibson

A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

— Edith Hamilton

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

— Jeanette Winterson

“Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

— Katy Lederer

You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book.

— Paul Erdos

“Baby, you say, baby this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.”

— Junot Díaz

If you think you have it tough, read history books.

— Bill Maher

The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print

— Mark Twain

It's never too late to begin a life or a book.

— Molly Picon

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.

— Jacques Barzun

I only want to write books and movies about women.

— Nick Hornby

I wish my book of life is written by pencil becoz I wanaa erase some pages…

— Mulfat

“Reading book reviews is like asking other people to chew your food for you.”

— Ron Brackin

I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.

— Rachel Cohn