Book Quotes · Page 37

The last sentence of a book is, of course, where you have to stop.

— Susan Sontag

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit…

— Wallace Stegner

If we want to be musicians, dancers or sportspeople, we can download a certain amount and watch DVDs and read books, but…

— Tenzin Palmo

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

— William H. Gass

It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may…

— Edgar Allan Poe

All of my books began as sermons, so really the heart of the message is still the same.

— Max Lucado

There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal…

— Donald Miller

I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem…

— Edwidge Danticat

I source images and ideas from different parts of my experiences, and sometimes they are things that are made-up, or just appear…

— Julia Stone

“Go ahead, throw this book away. Spit on me. Revile me. I dare you. Cast me out of your intellectual orbit. Throw…

— Anne Rice

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

— Jo Walton

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

— Jon Weisman

“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. 'Were”

— Charles Dickens

“Well, I’m warning you. I could be a bad book with a good jacket.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that character, the possibilities are…

— Eliza Coupe

I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies…

— Virginia Woolf

For me getting paid for art is a class issue. I don't have the luxury not to care. It's great if your…

— Nicole Georges

“though books, as Milton says, may be the embalming of mighty spirits, they are also the resurrection of rebellious, reactionary, fantastical, and…

— John Cowper Powys

I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I…

— Marianne Williamson

- "Women should all move to Amazonia, or at least vacation there four times a year." - "Amazonia?" - "It's the girl…

— Nora Roberts

Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said,…

— Marianne Williamson

There are two kinds of reading, reading which is contemplation - even a kind of vision & reading for information. For the…

— Mary Butts

I still enjoy the tactile sensation of holding a book. But when I need to read fast for work, I use the…

— Jonathan Tropper

Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since…

— David Toop