Book Quotes · Page 96

My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.

— Edward Abbey

My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment;…

— Julie Schumacher

I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I'd rather dance with the cows until you come…

— Groucho Marx

“A book is a present you can open again and again”

— I D Hendry

My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.

— James Patterson

I don't base my books on my life (thank goodness) and I don't pick the topic first. In fact, the topic picks…

— Jodi Picoult

If everything is made so obvious that it asks nothing of the readers, then after a while, their ability to respond is…

— Frances Clarke Sayers

Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary…

— Haruki Murakami

I slightly feel, having written Paraguay and Newfoundland - and both of them have developed eccentricities through isolation - I am quite…

— John Gimlette

God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us…

— Khalil Gibran

In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the…

— Elie Wiesel

“I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My first book was a historical novel. I started writing in 1974. In those days, historical novels meant ladies with swelling bosoms…

— Hilary Mantel

Melissa Foster is a wonderful connector of readers and books, a friend of authors, and a tireless advocate for women. She is…

— Jennie Shortridge

I can’t persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me,

— Lawrence Block

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

— Rick Riordan

Life is too short for reading inferior books.

— Anonymous

I'm reading "Team of Rivals'' I'll probably ending up reading a bunch of books about the Civil War. But I think my…

— Dave Barry

“There's nothing like the feel of an old book in your hands.”

— Kathryn Shay

Twenty-two pages is not a lot of space. Believe me. Having written a bazillion comics, I still find myself more often than…

— Mark Waid

Most of the reasons for late-term abortions have to do with severe fetal deformities, but when I found out that dwarfism was…

— John H Richardson

The best book in the world to put into the hands of one who desires to know about Jesus and to be…

— R. A. Torrey

Everything is Flammable was the first full-length book I was able to finish. I started a couple others, but ran out of…

— Gabrielle Bell

The judge threw the book at my man, judges like throwin books so I throw magazines.

— Papoose

I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.

— Jane Goldman

“This book," he began, "is very, very unsuitable." He paused, then went on. "In fact, in my whole life, I have never…

— Mark Salzman

I think that actually the rhythmic nature of picture books and of young reader story books is a way to help kids…

— Josh Prince

I mean somebody could write another book and say Brad's idea about Buddhism and sex is wrong, and here's mine, and that…

— Brad Warner

And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and…

— Terry Pratchett

I think it's harder - much harder - to be a good parent than to write a book.

— Elizabeth Berg

I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that…

— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

This book (the Bible) is not hard to understand. It's just hard to swallow.

— Steve Lawson

All fliers have some concern about flying. Some handle it by 'flying' the plane. They're 'raising' the wheels, 'making' the turns and…

— Saul Bass

This book will not harm you unless someone throws it at you which is a possibilty never to be discounted.

— Pseudonymous Bosch

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage…

— Anne Stevenson

I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping…

— Christopher Bollen

video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia".

— Guillermo del Toro

I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end…

— Luke Bryan

I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho' not of that Country, my…

— Daniel Defoe

When you see 'editor' on a book, there are many permutations of what that title can mean.

— Nathan Englander