Book Quotes · Page 138

“Your Life Determines Your Journey & Your Journey Determines Your Life”

— Charleston Parker

Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.

— Adam Young

“A good book can make you laugh but only a great book can make you cry”

— Rockerlulu

I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.

— Kevin Brockmeier

We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.

— Joseph Epstein

Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.

— Joe Queenan

The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

— Roland Barthes

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I've been approached a few times to write a book, but it's always a concept or a plan that I've not actually…

— Gemma Atkinson

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to…

— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have…

— Ray Bradbury

My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars.

— Derek Walcott

I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.

— Whitley Strieber

I hope people will find the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] a whole lot more than hollow.

— Andy Cohen

I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is…

— Steven Spielberg

When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never…

— Anonymous

With a novel, no matter where I am in it, I'm fretting about it. Every time I write a book, it starts…

— Douglas Kennedy

I went to work at the library. I know that sounds crazy but I didn't know where else to go. Besides, at…

— Christopher Pike

My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from…

— John Grisham

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They…

— Barbara W Tuchman

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is…

— John Berger

The book I made it big with in the U.S. was my fourth book, 'Sanctum.' My novels sell really well both there…

— Denise Mina

Research shows us that children who are read to from a very early age are more likely to begin reading themselves at…

— Laura Bush

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is perfect in the same way that The Great Gatsby is perfect. Take a pencil and…

— William McKeen

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature's book always contains the truth; we must only learn to read it.

— Sepp Holzer

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

— Salman Rushdie

“Pity the soul who finds itself with the wrong book in the wrong place”

— Anonymous

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

— Stephan Jenkins

“Take and remember the best part of a book like the best part of life!”

— Gabrielle Dubois

Isn't that interesting. All the book clubs. I've never belonged to one.

— Judy Blume

A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.

— Joanne Greenberg

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

— Jasper Fforde

His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another.

— William Joyce

I like to think the endings of all my books are open to interpretation.

— Jane Green

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

— Oscar Wilde

“distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)”

— Seneca

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

— Heinrich Heine

“when i say i want to read this book i mean i want to buy this book :)”

— Ghada Mohsen

My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.

— Charles Lamb