Book Quotes · Page 128

About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.

— Albert Einstein

I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.

— James Patterson

“Grace will always make the difference Book Only by grace”

— Solomon Teddy Osei

“If u only read the books that everyone's reading, you can think what everyone else is thinking.”

— Haruki Murakami

I called the book 'The Senator Next Door,' not 'The President Next Door.'

— Amy Klobuchar

If I didn't have my little schedule book, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

— Robert Osborne

“Buying a book you've never read is like buying a dress you've never tried on”

— Helene Hanff

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you,” answered Julián.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt…

— Cornelia Funke

Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding…

— Elliott Colla

My life feels like a book left out on the porch, and the wind blows the pages faster and faster, turning always…

— Nancy E. Turner

I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn.

— Mark Kurlansky

The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a…

— Sergio Aragones

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books…

— Russell Banks

I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play…

— Matt Groening

Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain…

— James Altucher

People stopping you in the street, though, is very different from being hounded by the press, which is the kind of attention…

— Grace Coddington

Absorbing. . . . Scrupulously reported . . . illuminates today’s Middle East. . . . The ‘least interventionist of any modern…

— Carlo Wolff

My heart right now is totally connected to a book called The Servant of the Bones, which is not in any way…

— Anne Rice

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his…

— Mark Twain

Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether…

— Martin Luther

While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I got a couple of different contacts from publishing companies saying they'd be interested in a book about my work: not a…

— Linda Ronstadt

Here I am, wasting away inside a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is stay in…

— Jodi Picoult

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

— Anonymous

“What is it with you and that book?" Rafael laughed. "We have a personal relationship.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.

— Salman Rushdie

If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.

— A.M. Homes

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

— William H. Gass

My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type.

— Michelle Rodriguez

I would rather preach one sermon than write a thousand books.

— Vavasor Powell

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

— John Updike

For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

— Gabrielle Zevin

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.

— Beverly Cleary

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

— Malala Yousafzai

“I am the black in the book the letters on the pages that you memorize.”

— Owl City

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

— Anthony Minghella

“Sometimes lost in a book, you forget which is the real world and which is fiction.”

— Gurnam Singh Sodhi

As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.

— Donna Tartt

I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.

— Janice Dickinson