Book Quotes · Page 32

I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the…

— Jay McInerney

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the…

— Martin Lewis Perl

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

— Bertolt Brecht

My alma mater was books, a good library.

— Malcolm X

“I'm glad to know I will never live long enough to run out of books to read.”

— self

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all…

— Agatha Christie

The books remind us that way down deep in our hearts, part of us knows that we are creatures of light and…

— Richard Bach

“You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good…

— Jayce O'Neal

My son has been known to throw a book at the television set when he called for me to come play and…

— Jane Pauley

The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on…

— Alan King

“You took out a book on blow-job technique from the British Library? They shouldn't have books like that in there!”

— Sarra Manning

I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the…

— Anne Enright

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

— Charles William Eliot

Book - what they make a movie out of for television.

— Anonymous

No book has ever made me laugh as much as 'I, Partridge.'

— Jon Richardson

I think the definition of a book is changing.

— Jeff Bezos

My four-year-old daughter regularly requests reading Book One [the March] at bedtime; the methods of reading, delivering, and processing the book's content…

— Nate Powell

I am the worst judge of my books.

— John Banville

Nearly all literature, in one sense, is made up of guide-books. Old ones tell us the ways our fathers went, through the…

— Herman Melville

My process is surprisingly straightforward. I find myself with little to do over a stretch of time and I say, "I should…

— Michael Ian Black

The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica.…

— Paul Laffoley

“She stood up and took the book from him, and as he smiled over his shoulder at some other kids, she threw…

— Markus Zusak

The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal…

— Alberto Manguel

I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people.

— Jesmyn Ward