Book Quotes · Page 120

I think [Albert] Camus felt very solitary. You can see it in all his books.

— Catherine Camus

Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

— Charles Frazier

There are books that inspired me the first time round and re-reading them just reignites that.

— Edith Bowman

Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery.

— Samuel Johnson

In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder." We are the keepers of tradition.

— Zygmunt Bauman

My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.

— James MacArthur

Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.

— Anonymous

When I talk to booksellers, they tell me how hard it is to hand-sell some of my books because I do keep…

— Matthew Desmond

I was working on a book about health and wellness, and nobody was interested in that from me. Thankfully, my cowriters reached…

— Perez Hilton

When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand…

— Betsy Byars

They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would…

— Gloria Whelan

Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something…

— Kelly Wearstler

“We really are little book whores,aren't we?Not just in the number of books that we read,but the number of guys we are…

— Erin Noelle

I came to America when I was seven and a half in 91. I think the first full length book in English…

— Mila Kunis

I've felt that in the past, where I just felt like I had to keep drawing in the same way to maintain…

— Daniel Clowes

Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books…

— Albert Camus

“While we need to stay informed about what they read and remain connected to our students, we don't need to participate in…

— Donalyn Miller

People say that you can't change people's minds with a movie or book, but how do they get formed in the first…

— Thom Andersen

It was 1996 and I was at a crossroads in my career. I had been working in Hollywood as a writer and…

— Robert Greene

[My first children's book] is very subliminal, let's put it that way. It even has a bit of a metaphysical little message…

— Gloria Estefan

A child is an eager observer and is particularly attracted by the actions of the adults and wants to imitate them. In…

— Maria Montessori

“The book is a rhetorical masterpiece of scientism, and it benefits from the particular kind of fear that numbers impose on nonprofessional…

— Anonymous

John Green has written a powerful novel—one that plunges headlong into the labyrinth of life, love, and the mysteries of being human.…

— KL Going

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.

— Anthony Storr

“A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books.

— John Lancaster Spalding

I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.

— George Payne Rainsford James

As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.

— A. Edward Newton

“Remember that the first rule when editing a book is to DO NO HARM.”

— Shawn Coyne

I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

— Kathy Acker

There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.

— Anonymous

I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.

— Terry Pratchett

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

— Jasper Fforde

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

— John Hodgman

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

— James McCosh

I surround myself with books, kind of hoping the vast knowledge will just seep into my mind through osmosis.

— Steve Backshall

It's so important to read a book before bed and do some weird stretching.

— Lady Amelia Windsor

I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper.

— Geoff Thompson

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

— Anonymous