Book Quotes · Page 722

In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a…

— Yann Martel

“No thanks; I'd much rather pretend I'm somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.”

— Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer

“And this book was an attempt to be with these feelings, also to find a place that will allow both to remember…

— David Grossman

“A good title never hurts a book.”

— Winna Efendi

Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality.

— Brad Thor

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is…

— Isaac D'Israeli

My first book is called 'The New Age Millennium: An Expose of Symbols, Slogans and Hidden Agendas.' When the book first came…

— Demond Wilson

They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.

— Loretta Chase

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

— Ray Bradbury

I don't plan my books. I don't know what's going to happen. That's why I could pick up any one of my…

— Jackie Collins

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

— Agatha Christie

“That is what a book is: a million little things, a thousand feelings, hundreds of experiences, all melted together and sculpted into…

— Beth Revis

All the great naturalists have been habitual walkers, for no laboratory, no book, car, train or plane takes the place of honest…

— Donald C. Peattie

A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only…

— Anthony Anaxagorou

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the…

— Anonymous

I think sometimes the way to preserve the magic of a book is to throw it away - meaning, not to cling…

— Emma Donoghue

A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.

— Catherynne M. Valente

I cannot life for life itself: but for the words which stay the flux. My life, I feel, will not be lived…

— Sylvia Plath

“One must become a book before one can know what is inside it.”

— Don DeLillo

“Am enjoying the books, have given one to gdaughter who has twin girls and the book just fits their age. Thanks”

— Boehl Jennifer

“No one gives a shit if you write a book or not.”

— Jeffrey Ford

When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious…

— Isaac Asimov

One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched.

— H. L. Mencken

We used to work with a promoter in Italy who used to book for shows with nine hour drives in between, so…

— Allan Holdsworth

I love this book! There are very few cookbooks published today that add something truly new and distinctive to the literature of…

— Michael Ruhlman

I knew she was a party girl. The book I liked most on her was called [princess] Margaret: A Life of Contrasts…

— Vanessa Kirby

“The things you're looking for...are in the world, but the only way the average chap will see ninety-nine percent of them is…

— Ray Bradbury

For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks…

— Arthur Rimbaud

There are enough women to do the childbearing and the childrearing. I know of none who can write my books.

— Henry Handel Richardson

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the…

— Pierre Bayle

Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It has no meaning, what do you use to write, the only thing that is important is: what do you write. A…

— Stanislaw Lem

The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins.

— Jonathan Daniels

It does not take much to imagine the humanity of people you don't know. An American author does not need to know…

— Elliott Colla

The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history.

— Charles Colson

I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books…

— Robert Graves

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

— Edna Ferber

I always dread the process of writing because I'm not a writer. I'm an audible guy, I'm a verbal guy. I love…

— T.C. Boyle

The sources of our knowledge of the kabalistic doctrines are the books of Yetzirah and Zohar, the former drawn up in the…

— Albert Pike

I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books…

— Pearl S. Buck