Book Quotes · Page 46

When I near the end of a book, it feels as if the entire universe meets me more than halfway and supports…

— Dani Shapiro

I remember wanting to write a book with someone, the someone being Kate [DiCamillo], and we decided to write about two friends.…

— Kate DiCamillo

“Books are your friends”

— Abul Huda

I think the relationship [in Aquarius] with her nephew shows that she's not nostalgic. She just wants to preserve what is important…

— Sonia Braga

Now, for my younger viewers out there, a book is something we used to have before the internet. It’s sort of a…

— Stephen Colbert

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

— Jean Rostand

I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople.…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Dear book, this is another day in my life. A life is like a book. A book is like a box. A…

— Gia Carangi

I grew up in a house full of books.

— Gillian Flynn

I don't know but a book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf--at any rate it…

— Herman Melville

If you must die a little to become immortal, then both Ali and Frazier died a bit that night in their third…

— Teddy Atlas

“One of the sad little secrets of the writing life is that it’s become like the movie business, where a movie has…

— Brian Morton

I wrote the book 'Grace, Gold & Glory' because I had to overcome many challenges and hardships. I wanted to share my…

— Gabby Douglas

When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings…

— Adrienne Rich

A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

“From your parents, you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books…

— Helen Hayes

“This book, for me, is less an exercise in recall than exorcism.”

— Jerry Stahl

Life isn't a book. There's no guarantee of a happy ending.

— Anonymous

"For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that…

— Hermann Hesse

Emma Rothschild's magnificently researched and lucidly written book reveals the many connections and layers of empire without in any way undermining the…

— Rudrangshu Mukherjee

If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters…

— Peter Carey

When I'm working on one book, part of my imagination is thinking ahead to the next one.

— Alastair Reynolds

I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer…

— Lee Strobel

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh