Book Quotes · Page 129

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I have a short attention span, so when one book isn't working out, I just work on another.

— Jacqueline Woodson

A book is a silent teacher, and a precious and indispensable companion in life.

— Vikrant Parsai

I don't do a lot of foisting, because when it comes to books I don't really like to be foisted upon.

— Michael Chabon

You can't tell a doper well under control from a vegetarian book-keeper.

— Raymond Chandler

There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.

— Hanna Rosin

I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.

— Kevin Brockmeier

Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not…

— Bethany Hamilton

I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and…

— John Larroquette

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to…

— Rumi

You're not doing the scene exactly the way it is in the book [The Hunger Games], but the intention of the scene…

— Nina Jacobson

What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being…

— Emile M. Cioran

The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only…

— Thomas Pynchon

I simply believe that a book has a journey to make, and should not be condemned to being stuck on a shelf……

— Anonymous

“We want books that are written for those of us who doubt everything, who cry over the least little thing, who are…

— Laurence Cossé

I am never happy when I finish a book. I always start feeling good, and then I get to about Page 75…

— Sarah Dessen

I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Now I do feel like I have something to say. The book [How to Be a Bawse] is a guide on how…

— Lilly Singh

I think that is what we do by preserving and telling our stories. If you don't tell your stories, other people will…

— Henry Louis Gates

We can spend Rs 5,000 for a meal at the Taj and thousands on all kinds of shopping, but we're always stingy…

— Sudha Murty

I was a kid, and I was very excited to experience this whole new world. And everything was fun, everything from, oh,…

— Regina Spektor

“In a sense these books on walks for their own sakes are the literature of paradise, the story of what can happen…

— Rebecca Solnit

It was amazing to me then, and still is, that so many people who wander into bookshops don't really know what they're…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

— Jeffery Deaver

“Far be it from me to keep a woman from her book. That could become dangerous.”

— Elizabeth Hunter

I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.

— Stephen Hawking

Please don't slap me, I'm a red blooded male and the book said I could not fail.

— Genesis

Life has many different chapters for us...one bad chapter doesn't mean it's the end of the book

— Mercy Pheona

I haven't said this yet, and I think I will say it. I stand by every word in the Hillary book to…

— Edward Klein

Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

— Chinua Achebe

“Inside a book, she captures all that's lost. She journals so her words won't fly away.”

— Stephanie Hemphill

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

— Helen Dunmore

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

— Mason Cooley

Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

— Max Hastings

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

— Ezra Pound

“Susan hated Literature. She’d much prefer to read a good book.”

— Terry Pratchett

Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with…

— Thomas Gray

Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.

— George Orwell