Book Quotes · Page 52

My greatest fear is being somewhere without a book.

— Patricia MacLachlan

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book…

— Robert Benchley

There are instances where lines in my work are borrowed or stolen from sources, mainly from books, or they become my own…

— Raymond Pettibon

We can't talk about the book [Albert Camus] wanted to write because we have barely its beginnings. He had written hardly any…

— Catherine Camus

I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Before I begin a novel I have a strong sense of at least one central character and how the story begins, and…

— Steve Erickson

Some things definitely work better on film than in books. Introspection is great in books but it doesn't work on film. Anything…

— Nicholas Sparks

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

— Andy Rooney

I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.

— Lev Grossman

I turned down all the requests for the rights to the books, for years, mostly because they wanted the rights to the…

— Louise Penny

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its…

— Augustus Hare

“She had left a book at home that she was impatient to get back to.”

— Willa Cather

If you can find two poems in a book, it could be a pretty good book for you. You know, two poems…

— Ted Kooser

I always encourage authors (especially new authors) to be as generous as we are blessed. For one thing, it is a way…

— Andy Andrews

I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents…

— Meg Rosoff

The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how…

— Edan Lepucki

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are…

— Samuel Johnson

Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.

— Diane Setterfield

“A book is a success when people who haven't read it pretend they have.”

— Los Angeles Times

A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it...

— Nora Ephron

For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.

— John Milton

I was never a fan of anything, and yet some people are fans of my books. That's a bit odd. But I…

— Daniel Handler

And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the…

— Dorianne Laux

“Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thought in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered…

— Frank Bruni

When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up…

— Kiran Desai