Book Quotes · Page 123

I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.

— Sean Durkin

I am alone, but never lonely. You have always books around you.

— Khushwant Singh

“You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside of them," said Meggie...”

— Cornelia Funke

I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.

— Bobby Fischer

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

— Vikram Seth

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

— Terry Riley

I always try to mix it up with each book - changing tone, changing style keeps the work very vital for me.

— Colson Whitehead

Joseph [Millar] is much more disciplined than I am. He's up every morning meditating, then he writes, and he reads throughout the…

— Dorianne Laux

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

— Anonymous

“Never mix books and bed. In the spectrum of excitement, sex & thought were on opposite ends. Both to be enjoyed, but…

— Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason

“Goodreads helps quite a few people that love to giveaway their books. I donate some of the books that I get from…

— William Manchee

The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into…

— Mohsin Hamid

As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the…

— Alastair Campbell

I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit…

— Anonymous

Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.

— Vivek Shraya

The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many…

— Richard Harris Barham

“War reporter Lawrence Sheets’s edgy memoir evokes exactly the fatalism, confusion, and centrifugal forces that suddenly broke up the Soviet Union two…

— Hugh Pope

What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In…

— Jennifer Donnelly

'Life's That Way' was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasn't written as a book. It was written as a…

— Jim Beaver

Sometimes you just have to turn the page to realize there's more to your book of life than the page you're stuck…

— Trent Shelton

“Personally, I like books that make you think – books you’re still wondering about three days after you finish them; books you…

— Jodi Picoult

When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the…

— William Butler Yeats

I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial…

— Samuel Beckett

“Be a King. Dare to be Different, dare to manifest your greatness.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“A great book is one, which really don’t finish when it finishes.”

— Aman Jassal

I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.

— Alan Dershowitz

Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.

— David McCullough

I used to do calligraphy, and I'm afraid that has lapsed, but I've always been interested in book printing.

— Alice Waters

Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.

— Laurie Notaro

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”

— Ezra Pound

“There is much to discover that's not on the back cover!”

— Anonymous

'Allegiance' is pretty much a book musical. You know, people talk and then they burst out into song.

— Lea Salonga

I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away.

— Mary Grandpre

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

— Ben Elton

I'm a very slow reader, and books of interviews are an absolute favorite of mine.

— Jason Schwartzman

If you plan to read one book this year I encourage you to consider, Find Your Reason to Be Here.

— Jed Diamond

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

— Henry Ward Beecher

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

— Agatha Christie

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

— Simone de Beauvoir