Book Quotes · Page 137

Life doesn't come with an instruction book; that's why we have fathers.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

“Everyone has a book inside them, it's just a matter of getting it out”

— S. P. Foster

The book is so rich and yet it is well done. A rare achievement indeed!

— Gil Kalai

All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times

— Rosemary Wells

Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.

— James Ellis

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

— Umberto Eco

He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

— John Donne

You must wanna be in the Guinness Book of World Records as the dumbest.

— Puff Daddy

“That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door. But you also get kind of used to…

— Edith Pattou

“Books are merely translations of our emotions into words that allow us to connect on an almost blood transfusion level.”

— Ksenia Anske

Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.

— Lauren Conrad

Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).

— Tom Peters

I wanted to write a book that maybe had the potential to go beyond the Deadspin and KSK [Kissing Suzy Kolber] readership.

— Drew Magary

Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage…

— Newell Dwight Hillis

If you're interested in a book that will steadily grow and sell for a very long time, I promise you I will…

— Simon Sinek

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I…

— Donald Miller

I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring…

— Chris Crutcher

I'm happy to entertain kids you know. It's my biggest pleasure to like see a twelve year old picking up a book…

— Marko Djurdjevic

I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but…

— Karl Lagerfeld

“One: A Library Is the Size of the Universe and the Universe Is the Size of a Library. Two: Everyone Is Looking…

— Catherynne M. Valente

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

I grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the…

— George R. R. Martin

“The novelist Umberto Eco famously kept what the writer Nassim Taleb called an “anti-library,” a vast collection of books he had not…

— Pamela Paul

Perusing colorful storylines on the backs of book jackets, I realized that none of them could possibly be as dramatic as my…

— Sarah Kay

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

— Abraham Lincoln

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

— Mahatma Gandhi

Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books.

— Carolyn Hart

Every book is a kind of struggle, and it's a miracle when it comes out.

— Aravind Adiga

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.

— Jay London

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.

— Tim Vine

“To get Over iT, we must get real, go deep, and live beyond ourselves.”

— Mary Buchan

Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger.

— Carl Deuker

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

— Mira Nair

What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?

— Ray Bradbury

I always have at least one book with me. I try and read a book a month.

— Gus Kenworthy

Carlton Mellick III has the craziest book titles and the kinkiest fans!

— Christopher Moore

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

— Eugenio Montale

I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.

— Lee Child

But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.

— Alison Bechdel