Book Quotes · Page 117

“I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see.”

— Shandy L. Kurth

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we…

— Franz Kafka

Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.

— Anonymous

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage.

— Robin Sloan

I think I'm much more comfortable talking about other books than my own!

— Jennifer Weiner

Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.

— Sara Sheridan

Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.

— Horace

Dr. [ Peter R.] Breggin's book can show you how to take your child back from the authoritarian state that wants to…

— Michael Savage

Keep reading books, stay in school. I encourage kids to read as much as they can, I challenge you to read a…

— Alex Rodriguez

The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.

— Herbert Hoover

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without…

— Jasper Fforde

[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters…

— August Strindberg

I'm the farthest thing from a bibliophile. I purge my collection regularly: If I haven't read a book in a couple of…

— H. W. Brands

In the chapter on the nature of the atonement [in the book saving Calvinism] I argue that it is a mistake to…

— Oliver D. Crisp

The book itself [The Thorn and The Blossom] is bound accordion-style: it has no spine, so it can open in either direction,…

— Theodora Goss

In the occupation in Afghanistan, there are tragedies as well. It's not as bad as in Iraq because there are fewer American…

— Yaroslav Trofimov

Even though I'm a writer and I love books and writing books is my favorite thing to do, when you teach, and…

— David Bianculli

In 1925 - 27 the revolution in China was destroyed by the false revolutionary strategy of the Stalinist faction. To this last…

— Leon Trotsky

Get a book, so you know where to put your fingers. Otherwise it would be tough to learn. Also you have to…

— Joan Jett

“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the…

— Robert Goolrick

As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig…

— Scott McCloud

The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the…

— John Updike

I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'…

— Margaret Atwood

Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].

— Nat Hentoff

Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book

— Ryan Holiday

When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.

— Rene Redzepi

You become a writer because you like to be alone in a room with your books.

— Nick Laird

To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.

— Barbara Tuchman

Having written Camp David as a drama, I could see the drama maybe a little more clearly when I wrote the book.

— Lawrence Wright

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— Kate

Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.

— Tyler Hilton

“I was taken up by books, as if by the strong arms of a parent I'd never known and had been badly…

— Vince Passaro

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

— Toni Morrison

If knowledge does not bring money, the book is its place, not the brain.

— Ilkin Santak

When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

— Richard Peck

“What could be more lovely than writing a book about something you love?”

— Mark Helprin

I didn't want my book to be soapy - maybe it's my vanity but I think I can write better than that.

— June Brown

To me, movies are books. They are texts to be consulted.

— Guillermo del Toro

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

— Richard Paul Evans