Book Quotes · Page 121

I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings.

— Taiye Selasi

I was a terrible student. For me, to take a book home was a trial.

— Vladimir Horowitz

I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.

— Watty Piper

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

— Josephine Tey

I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

— George Whitman

The book [The Dissemblers] officially came out two weeks after my thirtieth birthday...am I still young?

— Liza Campbell

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

— Antonio Tabucchi

For me, Iris West was traditionally white in the comic books. So, you know, comic book fans are very opinionated, very vocal.…

— Candice Patton

“I want to publish a book on toilet paper—not only about toilet paper, but actually print it on toilet paper. That way…

— Jarod Kintz

I believe the book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life. But it has threatened your life.…

— Tony Burgess

When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.

— Daniel Handler

I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired.…

— Brandon Sanderson

A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students…

— Frances Osborne

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh…

— Michael Crichton

Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used…

— Myrtle Reed

My days are filled with writing, reading, and being a mom. Some days, I get to visit schools around the country and…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and…

— E.B. White

It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry,…

— David Levithan

I had some friends commenting me books, but mostly it was people I didn't know. But they're fans. They're fans of the…

— Donald Miller

“Choosing which book isn't difficult. The choice is typically the last one I brought home. I acquire books constantly and place them…

— Rabih Alameddine

Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is…

— William Shakespeare

“I walked around the library looking for books. I pulled them off the shelves, one by one. But they were all tricks.…

— Charles Bukowski

I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny…

— Jennifer Weiner

“When I read I get lost into the book my mind is set into the setting." - Kate”

— Kate

If I ever write a book, 'I Should Have Worn Comfortable Shoes' would be the title.

— Jacky Rosen

Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.

— Jack Vance

“A book doesn't live when it's written. It lives when it's read.”

— Alice Hoffman

I think Stevie Wonder could sing the phone book and manage to make me cry.

— Brad Delp

I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books.

— Rene Magritte

I would draw my own comic book characters listening to metal. The drawing and music kind of went hand in hand.

— Alan Robert

I'm going to play as much as they want me to, as long as I can put up with what they book…

— Jules Shear

Someone should write a book where the main character slowly falls in love with the reader.

— Crystal Roby

Books don't only furnish a room: they also make the best holiday gifts.

— Michael Dirda

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

— Noah Baumbach

Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul

— Paulo Coelho

You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.

— Maggie Stiefvater

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

— David Sedaris

Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.

— Deb Caletti

“Courage is the ability to execute tasks and assignments without fear or intimidation.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E