Book Quotes · Page 133

I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it.

— Paul Harding

Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

— Samuel Johnson

Education is something that you know and get which is not in the book.

— Vikrant Parsai

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

— Italo Calvino

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

— Anonymous

I was a comic book nut and grew up on 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones.'

— Christian Borle

To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily.

— Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.

— William Godwin

“Whenever I teach you always learn something. Some of the greatest things you learn, aren't always in books. - Mr. Bucon”

— Brooke Alexander Zoey Porter

I want to write books that keep people up at night, where they cry through the first forty pages and keep reading…

— Kameron Hurley

Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the…

— Frederick Buechner

Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.

— Lev Grossman

“I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.”

— Paul Auster

“We've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You're getting spoiled, my girl!”

— Roald Dahl

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.

— Louisa May Alcott

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is…

— Emily Dickinson

Evan Handler is not only a fine actor, he’s a damn good writer. It’s Only Temporary is wise and funny and as…

— Meghan Daum

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge…

— Ralph Thomas Walker

Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! A true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure,…

— Thomas de Quincey

“She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning…

— Virginia Woolf

I read a lot, but at the same time I'm not a particularly good or diligent or discriminating reader. I go through…

— Dan Chaon

Most people don't realize the many steps that a pop-up goes through. There are a variety of "Dummies" (the sketch phase of…

— Tomie dePaola

Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That…

— Pat Conroy

If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer.

— J. K. Rowling

I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such.

— Terry Pratchett

I just directed The Jungle Book with Cate Blanchet and Christian Bale.

— Andy Serkis

The process of book writing for me is entirely one of trial and error.

— Geoff Dyer

“No book is worth reading once if it is not worth reading many times.”

— Susan Sontag

“Any book without a mistake in it has had too much money spent on it.”

— William Collins

I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

— Markus Zusak

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

— John Green

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

— Liam Neeson

“All that counts is that a child says at the end of the book, ‘Again!”

— Anonymous

There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.

— John Selden

stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions

— Michael Morpurgo

I'd like to make the film of Sam Selvon's book 'The Lonely Londoners.'

— Joe Wright

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

— Marilyn Hacker

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

— Francois Mitterrand

To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book.

— Sebastian Horsley