Book Quotes · Page 116

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

— Nora Roberts

“Oh what a feeling when you happen upon a book that seems to pour truth directly into your head.”

— Garry Fitchett

You know, things that might work in a book just do not work in the visual medium of movies.

— Wes Ball

“The magic of a jewel and the mystery of a book never end!”

— Laura Beth

I think 'Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned' might be a perfect book.

— Emily Ratajkowski

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

— Helen Dunmore

“Whatever that place is, I don't much care -- not unless a book has happened there.”

— Joyce Rachelle

“At some point though I need to stop cataloguing them or I’ll never get this book finished.”

— Joe Cater

Are there books about us or something?” This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study,…

— Julianna Baggott

I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be…

— J. Robert Lennon

“When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of papers and ink and glue - you sell…

— Christopher Morlay

I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!

— Paul Schrader

When I was fifteen, my father gave me a first edition copy of Ray Bradbury's magnificent work, 'The Martian Chronicles.' I had…

— Thomas Steinbeck

I buy a lot of books I never read. But that's not really a waste, since all it takes is one idea…

— Robin S. Sharma

“As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all…

— Aldous Huxley

If you hold a beautiful flower in your hand, you can write a whole book about it. However, you are still just…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters…

— Louis Sachar

Frankly, I fail to see how going for a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains can be judged less real than…

— Colin Fletcher

Many people have told me that my books read like novels. Perhaps this is because, when I write, I feel I am…

— Alison Weir

Write, if you must; not otherwise. Do not write, if you can earn a fair living at teaching or dressmaking, at electricity…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

I don't want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to…

— Andrew Rannells

“The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its…

— Victor Hugo

The book 'A Reliable Wife' is a slice of American history. It takes a part of American history and tells a story…

— Patti LuPone

I wish I could go back and rewrite my first book, You Bright and Risen Angels; I could do a better job.…

— William T. Vollmann

“To be on the same page, we need to be in the same book.”

— Rahul Guhathakurta

I'm obsessed with books. When a good book hits me, it's all I can think about and all I can do.

— Jessie Cave

I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it…

— Vicky Hartzler

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

— Jasper Fforde

I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.

— Rick Riordan

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

— Margaret Atwood

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

— John Green

“The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened”

— L.J. deVet

Never judge a book by the cover ,you never know you might be talking to a angel...

— Frenchqueen

I like listening to books as well, as that way you can iron at the same time.

— David Sedaris

“If you spare some space for a new book, also spare some time to read it.”

— Amit Kalantri

I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone!

— Jane Gardam

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

— Guillermo del Toro

If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos.

— Diana Abu-Jaber

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

— Jane Austen

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

— Martin Luther