--- title: "10 Book Reason Quotes by 10 authors" description: "Browse 10 Book Reason quotes by 10 authors. Discover the best Book Reason sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fe/james-rollins-7397_book_generally-if-you-preface-an-interview-re_2336600.png" --- > [Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-rollins/generally-if-you-preface-an-interview-request-with-i-m-an-author/) [James Rollins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-rollins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fe/james-rollins-7397_book_generally-if-you-preface-an-interview-re_2336600.png) > [“I grew it - sorry, drew it - for this book, if for no other reason than to illustrate the old saying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/connor-franta/i-grew-it-sorry-drew-it-for-this-book-if-for-no-other-reason-than-to/) [Connor Franta](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/connor-franta/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e30/connor-franta-11370_books_i-grew-it-sorry-drew-it-for-this-book-if_1632293.jpg) > [Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I'm very much afraid that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hafez/oh-you-who-are-trying-to-learn-the-marvel-of-love-through-the-copy/) [Hafez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hafez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/305/hafez-3676_book_oh-you-who-are-trying-to-learn-the-marve_1561834.png) > [“Take all of this Book upon reason that you can, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elton-trueblood/take-all-of-this-book-upon-reason-that-you-can-and-the-balance-on/) [Elton Trueblood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elton-trueblood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/036/elton-trueblood-18687_bible_take-all-of-this-book-upon-reason-that-y_701199.jpg) > [I had someone ask me, they thought I was doing a kids' book for some reason. I think my book reads like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nate-bargatze/i-had-someone-ask-me-they-thought-i-was-doing-a-kids-book-for-some/) [Nate Bargatze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nate-bargatze/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfd/nate-bargatze-6476_book_i-had-someone-ask-me-they-thought-i-was_2115922.jpg) > [I recall an incident involving the late George Stigler at a conference in Spain in the 1980s. Hearing that I had written…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-van-dun/i-recall-an-incident-involving-the-late-george-stigler-at-a/) [Frank Van Dun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-van-dun/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b00/frank-van-dun-60606_antics_i-recall-an-incident-involving-the-late_578109.jpg) > [“Do you remember the section on controlling demons in Demonologies ? I believe it's in chapter five." "Um...no." Irritation flashed over his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-hawkins/do-you-remember-the-section-on-controlling-demons-in-demonologies-i/) [Rachel Hawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-hawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/572/rachel-hawkins-379_demons_do-you-remember-the-section-on-controlli_57786.jpg) > [If you're going to visit and re-visit a book, it has more reason to be a real book, because of that ability…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/art-spiegelman/if-you-re-going-to-visit-and-re-visit-a-book-it-has-more-reason-to-be/) [Art Spiegelman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/art-spiegelman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/900/art-spiegelman-14058_ability_if-you-re-going-to-visit-and-re-visit-a_3205177.jpg) > [“Even if you are not actively mourning a loved one right now, you bought my book for a reason, and I don’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theresa-caputo/even-if-you-are-not-actively-mourning-a-loved-one-right-now-you/) [Theresa Caputo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theresa-caputo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13c/theresa-caputo-69790_another-time_even-if-you-are-not-actively-mourning-a_2882570.jpg) > [“READER, You have here an honest book; it does at the outset forewarn You that, in contriving the same, I have proposed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/reader-you-have-here-an-honest-book-it-does-at-the-outset-forewarn/) [Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e62/michel-de-montaigne-142_books_reader-you-have-here-an-honest-book-it-d_2420174.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book-reason/#itemlist", "name": "Book Reason Quotes", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "James Rollins" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-rollins/generally-if-you-preface-an-interview-request-with-i-m-an-author/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fe/james-rollins-7397_book_generally-if-you-preface-an-interview-re_2336600.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fe/james-rollins-7397_book_generally-if-you-preface-an-interview-re_2336600.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fe/james-rollins-7397_book_generally-if-you-preface-an-interview-re_2336600.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that…” — James Rollins", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I grew it - 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At that point I asked him whether he was trying to tell me something about how he wrote his books; he gave me a blank stare and stormed out of the room.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Frank Van Dun" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-van-dun/i-recall-an-incident-involving-the-late-george-stigler-at-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b00/frank-van-dun-60606_antics_i-recall-an-incident-involving-the-late_578109.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b00/frank-van-dun-60606_antics_i-recall-an-incident-involving-the-late_578109.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b00/frank-van-dun-60606_antics_i-recall-an-incident-involving-the-late_578109.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I recall an incident involving the late George Stigler at a conference in Spain in the 1980s. 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I believe it's in chapter five.\" \"Um...no.\" Irritation flashed over his face. \"Honestly, Sophie, I gave you that book for a reason.\" \"And I'm really sorry, but it's long and boring,and can we just skip to the part where you tell me what it says?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rachel Hawkins" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-hawkins/do-you-remember-the-section-on-controlling-demons-in-demonologies-i/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/572/rachel-hawkins-379_demons_do-you-remember-the-section-on-controlli_57786.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/572/rachel-hawkins-379_demons_do-you-remember-the-section-on-controlli_57786.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/572/rachel-hawkins-379_demons_do-you-remember-the-section-on-controlli_57786.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Do you remember the section on controlling demons in Demonologies ? 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Maybe you were meant to read this today, come back to it another time, or earmark it for a friend. No matter what, I’ll bet it’s just what Spirit ordered.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Theresa Caputo" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theresa-caputo/even-if-you-are-not-actively-mourning-a-loved-one-right-now-you/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13c/theresa-caputo-69790_another-time_even-if-you-are-not-actively-mourning-a_2882570.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13c/theresa-caputo-69790_another-time_even-if-you-are-not-actively-mourning-a_2882570.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13c/theresa-caputo-69790_another-time_even-if-you-are-not-actively-mourning-a_2882570.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Even if you are not actively mourning a loved one right now, you bought my book for a reason, and I don’t…” — Theresa Caputo", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“READER, You have here an honest book; it does at the outset forewarn You that, in contriving the same, I have proposed to myself no other than a domestic and private end: I have had no consideration at all either to Your service or to my glory. My powers are not capable of any such design. I have dedicated it to the particular commodity of my kinsfolk and friends, so that, having lost me (which they must do shortly), they may therein recover some traits of my conditions and humours, and by that means preserve more whole, and more life-like, the knowledge they had of me. Had my intention been to seek the world's favour, I should surely have adorned myself with borrowed beauties: I desire therein to be viewed as I appear in mine own genuine, simple, and ordinary manner, without study and artifice: for it is myself I paint. My defects are therein to be read to the life, and any imperfections and my natural form, so far as public reverence hath permitted me. If I had lived among those nations, which (they say) yet dwell under the sweet liberty of nature's primitive laws, I assure thee I would most willingly have painted myself quite fully and quite naked. Thus, reader, myself am the matter of my book: there's no reason You should employ Your leisure about so frivolous and vain a subject. Therefore farewell.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michel de Montaigne" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/reader-you-have-here-an-honest-book-it-does-at-the-outset-forewarn/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e62/michel-de-montaigne-142_books_reader-you-have-here-an-honest-book-it-d_2420174.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e62/michel-de-montaigne-142_books_reader-you-have-here-an-honest-book-it-d_2420174.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e62/michel-de-montaigne-142_books_reader-you-have-here-an-honest-book-it-d_2420174.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“READER, You have here an honest book; it does at the outset forewarn You that, in contriving the same, I…” — Michel de Montaigne", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book-reason/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book-reason/", "name": "Book Reason Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book-reason/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fe/james-rollins-7397_book_generally-if-you-preface-an-interview-re_2336600.png" }, "description": "Browse 10 Book Reason quotes by 10 authors. 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