Book Quotes · Page 90

There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.

— Anonymous

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.

— Milan Kundera

Man no longer dreams over a book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs with him through…

— Loren Eiseley

Many books on communication are strong on theory but impractical on application. Marshall Rosenberg's instant classic is the stand-out exception. It is…

— Hugh Prather

Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.

— Dan Hawkins

“I definitely haven’t been in the best place while working on this book, but I can say this much: Where there is…

— N.K. Jemisin

“If I read a book that impresses me, I have to pull myself together before I mingle with other people. Otherwise they…

— Diana Mauer

I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my…

— Marya Hornbacher

Most apologetic books are really written for Christians, even the ones that purport to be written for non-believers.

— Timothy Keller

Much as I like and admire Richard Dawkins, I do think that to call a book 'The God Delusion' is very worrying…

— Robert Winston

I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.

— Rebecca Wells

'Established' is a good word, much used in garden books, 'the plant, when established' ... Oh, become established quickly, quickly, garden! For…

— Ursula Bethell

My intention is always to honor the character that Lev [Grossman] created in the books and my greatest concern, honestly, is that…

— Hale Appleman

Real life this fdar had taught me that in the adult world, fate was chaotic and uncertain. Guidelines for success were arbitrary.…

— Ethan Gilsdorf

While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane,…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life,…

— Elizabeth Strout

She looked at her shelves, filled with books in which the bad stuff that happened to people was caused by things like…

— Anne Ursu

The time is long overdue for a massive flooding of the earth with the Book of Mormon for the many reasons which…

— Ezra Taft Benson

My general writing preface is to write an outline and then ignore about half of it, both on a micro level with…

— Daniel Handler

I don't want to try to live up to someone who's created something so incredible. I'm just trying to focus on what…

— Veronica Roth

With climate change, of course there are things to grieve. I certainly grieved that the vision that I had for my life,…

— Margaret D. Klein

My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then…

— Neil Gaiman

God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her…

— Melina Marchetta

“When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the…

— Philip Pullman

It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that…

— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

In my opinion what distinguishes the Bible from the other books is its sense of time. Its first concern is to establish…

— Adrienne Monnier

I loved the movie theater so I always saw a lot of movies. And then there was a play, I saw in…

— Ed O'Neill

I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books.

— Jan Karon

Simon Critchley's 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - it's a quick thumbnail sketches of philosophers through the ages.

— David Benioff

The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.

— Richard Serra

You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel…

— Philip K. Dick

It makes me nuts, the idea that if you put a political struggle at the heart of your book, then it has…

— Ruth Ozeki

Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.

— John Milton

Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book.

— John Bosco

The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new…

— Molly Ringwald

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are…

— Rafael Sabatini

I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and…

— Josh Radnor

I think the thing I had to be careful about while writing a book was not to say anything that was revealing…

— Mike Birbiglia

When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk…

— Didi Conn