Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your…

If you are a conscious human being who has opinions about the world, then you will unconsciously put your own perspective into the book.

— Ransom Riggs

Nothing so clears the vision and lifts up the life, as a decision to move forward in what you know to be entirely the…

— John Gibson Paton

The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.

— William Rounseville Alger

it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.

— Dorothea Brande

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

— Jessica Brockmole

“you see book is like a machine if it don't have gas it can't start just like our brain without book we wouldn't know…

— Kelly Elysee

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it…

— David McCullough

I always say that, for me, writing a book is like a wacky Greyhound bus trip - I know where I'm starting and where…

— Deb Caletti

Dear book, this is another day in my life. A life is like a book. A book is like a box. A box has…

— Gia Carangi

The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong…

— Daniel Handler

A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only that, but there's no guarantee that you will enjoy it,…

— Anonymous

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

— Angela Carter

“Reading a good book is like taking a journey.”

— Emma Gulliford

“A good book is like a stream, with which we can flow slowly, playfully, it lets us savor the joy of weaving the magic…

— Balroop Singh

Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how…

— Jess Walter