Book Quotes · Page 135

“The ability to forget is a blessing, just like memory is.”

— Marwane Caber

I have a bad habit of picking up books about drugs, but that's better than having a drug habit, I think.

— Andrew VanWyngarden

“I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.”

— Daniel T. O'Hara

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow…

— Lynda Barry

The judge threw the book at my man, judges like throwin books so I throw magazines.

— Papoose

Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did.

— Bill Johnson

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

— Walter Raleigh

When people say don't judge a book by its cover that's complete bullshit...reality didn't hit them yet.

— Anonymous

The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least,…

— George Bernard Shaw

Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but…

— Leah Price

“…I had a good title already. My book was originally called Loser: A Brief History of Notable Failures. But American publishers don’t…

— Paul Collins

Cracking the Ice scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner.

— Anonymous

My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually…

— Anthony Horowitz

I'm the female Bob Woodward! If I were a liberal, I couldn't write another book. I'd be so busy collecting awards! I'd…

— Ann Coulter

When I started to write 'Hannah's Child,' I realized that this had to be a book of passion, to have a certain…

— Stanley Hauerwas

I have like 250 letters that I have to whittle it down to 150. Only then do you have the whole overview…

— Don Novello

Second novels are bears. As are other people's expectations for them. I think taking the time you need with the second book…

— Jandy Nelson

Lay aside all conceit Learn to read the book of Nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years…

— Louis Agassiz

I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb. Ineffable socialities are in me. I would sit down and…

— Herman Melville

“find the experience of diving into a new world the most exhilarating of sensations,” he said. “I agree. Each book is like…

— Santa Montefiore

If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I…

— Lynn Johnston

You hear all this stuff about inner peace. Hey, there's nothing wrong with it, but I say, hit that line hard. Crack…

— Deacon Jones

Real life this fdar had taught me that in the adult world, fate was chaotic and uncertain. Guidelines for success were arbitrary.…

— Ethan Gilsdorf

In the early '90s, I was disillusioned after the blasts and riots in Mumbai. I was in college and started thinking that…

— Amish Tripathi

It takes me forever to read a book. I have such a small attention span.

— Lewis Hamilton

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

— Azar Nafisi

[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

— Miguel de Cervantes

It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

— William James

The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

— Neil Simon

The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.

— Kristin Hannah

I was going to write a book one day and I actually did. To have it is a major accomplishment for me.

— DJ Khaled

“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one that makes you think.”

— Harper Lee

I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.

— Yunus Emre

Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.

— David Levithan

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.

— Stephen Malkmus

If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house.

— Lisa Scottoline

“The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business.”

— Michael Ben Zehabe

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

— Eve Bunting

I was really bummed when I got to the last one of Tony Hillerman Navajo detective books.

— Dave Barry