Book Quotes · Page 135

“You recreate your world to your taste with God's Word in your mouth.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

— Rachel Cusk

“It's risky most of the time, but its better to listen to your heart.”

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!

— Bobby Fischer

Books are but stepping stones to show you where other minds have been.

— John Muir

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

— Frank Zappa

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.

— Edward Gorey

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

— George Steiner

You're not doing the scene exactly the way it is in the book [The Hunger Games], but the intention of the scene…

— Nina Jacobson

Reading books makes you smart, so if me reading makes me look like a nerd or a geek, then I am proud…

— Shar-rae

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

— Madeleine Albright

The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix.

— Vasily Smyslov

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only…

— Mal Peet

Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.

— William Saroyan

Haven't read a book for years - keep buying them and never getting round to reading them - I never seem to…

— Limahl

Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they…

— Nikki Giovanni

What are you reading?" Owen asks. "Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died." "You ought…

— Gabrielle Zevin

Will bounded up onto one of the ladders and yanked a book off the shelf. "I'll find you something else to read.…

— Cassandra Clare

Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. They come to…

— Cecelia Ahern

I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against…

— Chuck Palahniuk

For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover…

— John Van Hamersveld

For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it…

— Michael Morpurgo

The Lord does not show Himself to a proud soul. The proud soul, no matter how many books it reads, will never…

— Silouan the Athonite

You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of…

— John Green

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

— John Updike

“Book should be pragmatic and meaningful that adds value to your life”

— Sabita Mishra

He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.

— Walter Savage Landor

The most important book on the Internet is, essentially, the Internet.

— John Hodgman

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.

— Per Petterson

With the history of us, a book wouldn't necessarily be the best thing.

— Keisha Buchanan

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

— Rob Machado

I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.

— Norman MacCaig

Through the study of books one seeks God; by meditation one finds him.

— Pio of Pietrelcina

I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

— Sophie Thompson

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

— Anonymous

I’m waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh’s pharmacist writes a book.

— Carl Hiaasen

“A good book is a good book, I’ve always thought, whatever the genre.”

— Miranda James

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.

— Louise Brown

Roy Race was a comic book hero, and Steven Gerrard is a real-life one.

— Harry Redknapp