Book Quotes · Page 133

“The Book of Job depicted the discovery of the devil in deity.”

— Charlotte Spivack

The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake...

— Haruki Murakami

My life is open book but I dont allow everyone to read it

— Hussein Nishah

A lot of my book, 'The Price of Inequality,' is about why there has been an increase in rent-seeking.

— Joseph Stiglitz

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

— David Mitchell

“If people were rain i was drizzle and she was a hurrican.”

— John Green

Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.

— James Salter

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

— Emma Thompson

Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a…

— Anonymous

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired…

— Anonymous

I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting…

— Jimmy Carr

If the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will…

— Timothy Zahn

What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life…

— Robert Redford

I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly,…

— Ludwig Bemelmans

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!”

— Jane Austen

“Don't ask me about my book...read it. You will find what you need and what speaks to you in the depths or…

— Ina Brink

I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music. Left with only knowledge, they will at the end…

— Ernst Bacon

This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is…

— Geoff Ryman

“...she had saved herself for this, stored her love within her so that this book, which could not possibly have been written…

— Catherynne M. Valente

What is striking is that from almost from the very beginning of certainly by September and October of 1963, as the book…

— Manning Marable

I saw a lot of lousy movies and watched a ton of crappy television and read a bunch of utterly forgettable books…

— Michael Chabon

The thing is that I don't normally think in terms of manga when I'm writing. Sounds odd from someone who has is…

— Sean Michael Wilson

“Books are the ultimate ride-or-die companions. They’re always there, never cancel plans, and don’t care if you’re in your pajamas. They offer…

— Life is Positive

Librarians are serious people, seldomgiven to idle jocularity. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous…

— Lynn Austin

Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.

— Edwin Arlington Robinson

We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other,

— Henry Jenkins

No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading.

— Ronald Fisher

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

— Eric Schmidt

I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.

— William Shakespeare

In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.

— Aldous Huxley

You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.

— Wilbur Smith

My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.

— Edward Abbey

Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

— E. M. Forster

I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way…

— Al Seckel

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

— Rick Riordan

“Great American Novel” = ”doorstop of a book, usually pretentious, written by a man.”

— Lionel Shriver

The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

— Edmond Jabes

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote…

— Anonymous

The thing people don't realize, God bless them, is that my books are supposed to suck.

— Stephenie Meyer

Anybody who tells you they're not scared when starting a new book project is a very good liar.

— Uzodinma Iweala