Book Quotes · Page 29

I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read…

— Margaret Atwood

You could be beaten down by anybody and by everybody and it doesn't matter what everybody else thinks it's how you see…

— Mark Cuban

That's what this country needs -- more books!

— Christopher Morley

Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human…

— Christopher Morley

If you want to catch the right mental attitude, go where that attitude exists. Start by going to the people who have…

— Zig Ziglar

“When you read a book, you don't give up on it. You might soon feel like your part of the story.”

— Kiersten White

I think the book [Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos] has meaning for any large city with urban problems. There are political…

— Angela Alioto

“CUSTOMER: Do you have this children's book I've heard about? It's supposed to be very good. It's called "Lionel Richie and the…

— Jen Campbell

A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?”…

— Anonymous

If Bill O'Reilly is calling you a far-left critic, in my book, no matter what your political persuasion is, that's probably -…

— Michael Hastings

Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.

— Stephen King

I surround myself with books, kind of hoping the vast knowledge will just seep into my mind through osmosis.

— Steve Backshall

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

— Salman Rushdie

Personally, I never understood the power of having books written about your experience - whatever that experience may be - until I…

— Jay Asher

“I'm not sure why we have that [book on weaponry] on the shelves. I'd feel a lot better if we didn't teach…

— Lindsey Renee Backen

I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood…

— Ilka Chase

I don’t want to be a Princess,” she said finally. “You can’t make me be one.” She knew very well what became…

— Catherynne M. Valente

A writer writes a book. People read it. You don't know what they're reading, really. You read a review and think, "That…

— James Salter

I'd say that [Louis] Brandeis practiced a kind of a "living originalism," to use the title of Jack Balkin's great book. He…

— Jeffrey Rosen

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.

— V. S. Naipaul

I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.

— Steven Curtis Chapman

At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three…

— Peter Carey

Lemony Snicket. Now, I'm told - the books, of course, starting from the very first one, became hugely popular, selling millions and…

— Daniel Handler

The intimate and the infinite are tangled together in this incandescent book, lit by Aristotle’s bright spark of a daughter. Lucid even…

— Marina Endicott

She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job,…

— Louise Erdrich