Book Quotes · Page 1,171

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

— John Steinbeck

The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because…

— Mark Haddon

You can buy [John McCain's] book, but in a week and a half, he'll have another.

— Jon Stewart

I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out…

— Patricia Reilly Giff

Don't tell me what's in the Red Book. I wrote the goddamned thing. And I know that it's a lot of crap.

— Paul Martin

I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and…

— Julian Assange

I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.

— Michel de Montaigne

Slamming the book shut produces a wind on the face, a weather that is copyrighted by the author, and this wind may…

— Ben Marcus

Wonderful!Hold Me Tight blends the best in research findings with practical suggestions from a caring and compassionate clinician. This fabulous book will…

— Daniel J. Siegel

I always wanted to write a book about LA, a big ambitious book. Nobody had ever really done it with LA- treating…

— James Frey

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

I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to…

— Lou Reed

...the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over…

— C. S. Lewis

There's something lovely about writing a book, doing what you want. I love the solitariness of it.

— Jane Fallon

At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours…

— Tracy Kidder

We sometimes drive ourselves crazy with how our books will be "seen," when in fact we already know what they're about, and…

— Meg Wolitzer

I look at comic books, and I do very eclectic mood boards with ideas and images that have to do with a…

— Alexandra Byrne

I'll live with whatever sentence I'll get in the end - I'll just finish my book.

— Peter Sunde

I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.

— Ann Patchett

Finally, I wish to remember the millions of Allied servicemen and prisoners of war who lived the story of the Second World…

— Laura Hillenbrand

I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed…

— Ray Bradbury

If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I'm the world 'Guinness Book of Records' holder of 1,749 hugs in one hour. My arms fell off.

— Nick Vujicic

“The book identifies you as part of the tribe. On the opposite extreme, there are people who will walk up to you…

— Jessica Zafra

I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are…

— Justin Timberlake