The things which are close to you can leave you sometimes…

The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.

— Marina Abramovic

There's no such thing as too close, especially when it's your mom.

— Quincy Brown

“they do have these things called bookstores there. I've heard tell that if you give them money, they let you leave with a book.”

— Lauren Morrill

I always travel with one book. I'll read it and then leave it for someone else, and take another book.

— Patrick J. Adams

To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself.

— Dacia Maraini

I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.

— Sean Penn

To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown,…

— Anne Fadiman

However, the eleventh-hour nature of these changes left us frustrated and angry — because they prevent us from telling the best stories we can.…

— Anonymous

Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.

— Elizabeth Kostova

I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you…

— Richard K. Morgan

I never really got the book together for the thing, so I had all the songs and the characters. But by the time we'd…

— David Bowie

“A great book is a thing of mystery and beauty; it has the power to move you.”

— Neil Leckman

“Yes, something [book] to transport your mind from where and who and what you are. Everyone needs that. A time or two in my…

— Lisa Kleypas

I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my…

— Luke Bryan

In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look true, and…

— Percy Lubbock