Book Quotes · Page 136

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

— Anonymous

I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

— Walter Matthau

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved…

— Jan Karon

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

— John Hodgman

I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children.

— Neil Gaiman

That awkward moment when the internet goes down so you have to use your book to find the answers.

— Anonymous

'Your Erroneous Zones' was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

— Wayne Dyer

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote…

— Len Deighton

I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions…

— Viggo Mortensen

“Because with a really good book you get something new every time you read it. Because…Well…Because you're a different person each time.”

— Derrolyn Anderson

“The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the…

— Muriel Spark

The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal…

— Alberto Manguel

I wrote 'Little Fires Everywhere' and sold the book in 2015, still the Obama years. The possibility of a Trump presidency was…

— Celeste Ng

When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book.…

— Elvis Presley

Now what I do is I manage that decision. And I teach them in the book how - know what decision to…

— John C. Maxwell

We have been counseled to "seek . . . out of the best books words of wisdom." It is pointed out in…

— Henry D. Taylor

I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The…

— Akhil Sharma

Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the…

— Jonathan Raban

The religious neutrality in our schools is, I would argue, one of our strengths. Teachers cannot inhibit or deride religion. But this…

— Adam Hamilton

I wish I had read Sacred Pregnancy when I was pregnant instead of the dozen books I had to piece together to…

— Mayim Bialik

Back in middle school, Catherine and I had gone through this stage where all we would read were fantasy books. We'd consume…

— Meg Cabot

Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is a whole lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. I have pills…

— Tom Robbins

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and…

— G. Stanley Hall

I write books to relieve myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.

— Bret Easton Ellis

My book is already online. I can type 150 words a minute. I took typing in high school.

— Burton Cummings

They write them long because they can't write them short.

— Raymond Chandler

There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The books I like...contain things to ponder, ignore, memorize, and laugh and wonder at.”

— Seymour Chwast

It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.

— Philip Schaff

Books make great gifts because they're something you love that you can share.

— John Lithgow

“To me; reading a book is like watching a movie. Once I start, I can't stop until it's over.”

— Anonymous

You will learn more from your friends than you ever will from books. Choose your friends wisely

— Matthew Kelly

When I finish a book, I'm so exhausted that I'm sort of letting myself think that this could be the end.

— Jo Nesbo

I think the fact that I use salty words in my Bonhoeffer book would tip you off that I'm no prude, exactly.

— Eric Metaxas

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

— William H. Gass

I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore.

— Maurice Sendak

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

— Talulah Riley

“Each time a girl opens a book and finds a womanless history, she learns she is worth less.”

— Myra Pollack Sadker

Isn't that interesting. All the book clubs. I've never belonged to one.

— Judy Blume