Book Quotes · Page 62

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things…

— Alan Bennett

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

— Anonymous

We encounter the grinding wheels that sharpen our mental blades many places in life. Adversity, school, parents, spiritual guides, books, experience are…

— Rob Kall

The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

— Gabriel Zaid

Year after year, author/historian William Loren Katz continues to mine the lodestone of Black culture, and it is simply amazing how often…

— Herb Boyd

'Underworld' was my first filmed book. I think there are about seven of my lines in it.

— Clive Barker

We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of…

— Khalil

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

— Don Winslow

“Losing yourself in a book is the best”

— Anonymous

You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.

— Nick Hornby

You will most appreciate 'Freddy and Fredericka' if you are familiar with the story of the Fall, the Good Hermit, 'Tom Jones,'…

— Mark Helprin

To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man…

— Francis Bacon

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called…

— Anonymous

I keep threatening to write a non-fantasy book, and they keep offering me the kind of money I can't refuse to write…

— Raymond E. Feist

Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have…

— Virginia Woolf

There are certain things that I'll hear about and that I think will make a great book and I put it in…

— Jodi Picoult

People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written…

— Tom Felton

I love that the book [Paper Girls ] gets to kind of evolve and change in each era. Our third storyline is…

— Brian K. Vaughan

Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the…

— Jonathan Raban

“In my stories, I wrote Malcolm as fire and gold and power, but here in my arms, Colin is cedar, silver, and…

— Jacqueline E. Smith

“I am a passionate reader. New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all…

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I've admired Bill Kauffman's books for years . . . appealing, elegantly written, and entirely American.

— Howard Frank Mosher

“Sow good seeds for a good yield.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu