Book Quotes · Page 139

“The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.

— Alberto Manguel

CAN'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER. BECAUSE THAT BOOK MIGHT JUST BE THE LOVE STORY YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR.

— Ashley

I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

— Susan Orlean

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call

— Larry McMurtry

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Get a peek at what married life is like for Layken and Will in This Girl, the third book”

— Colleen Hoover

Let me put it in a positive light, with that archive [of Anne Romaine], we have gained extensive knowledge about how [Alex]…

— Manning Marable

I always have been and will remain someone who loves real, 3D, substantial books. And I don't believe that it's a wistful,…

— Art Spiegelman

There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book. The author wants his story told…

— Bryan Burrough

I was giving a lecture and I said, that's enough about The Photographic Life, meaning my biography, now let's talk about the…

— Sam Abell

“Full ownership of a book only comes when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make…

— Charles Van Doren

No matter how many books you've written, whenever you sit down to write a new book, you always feel the same challenge…

— Cassandra Clare

A collection, for me, is a book of very diverse stories that somehow speak to each other, across wide geography, across time,…

— Peter Orner

I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have…

— Franka Potente

In a New York Post interview, Judy Blume, author of young-adult fiction, gave this advice on getting your kids to read: "Moms…

— Judy Blume

As a teacher, I can help my students see what is working and not working. I can show them certain solutions. I…

— Akhil Sharma

Hospitals are often grim places: being stuck on a ward is excruciatingly boring, especially when you're too ill to follow the plot…

— Dawn Foster

I remember, as a kid, I couldn't wait to get my library card, get my first book. There was a sphinx on…

— Keith Hernandez

I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can…

— Richard Price

I would not wear any clothes that had a brand name on them, and I only read books that were canonical. I…

— Zoe Kazan

Covers, so many covers, so many different, delectable pictures, and although, metaphorically speaking, it is the thing I hate most, when it…

— Jane Green

I want to stop. I want to stay on Fårö, and read the books I haven’t read, find out things I haven’t…

— Ingmar Bergman

“Sometimes authors treat their books are burgers. More they want to sell, more spices they put in.”

— Sudhir Mittalittal

He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. from the Book of Proverbs

— Solomon

Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.

— Marc Bolan

Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible.

— Jonathan Lethem

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

— Anonymous

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to…

— George MacDonald

The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.

— Etel Adnan

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

— Tim O'Reilly

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

— Henry David Thoreau

“sometimes being silent is the best way to appreciate the moment”

— Kiran Joshi

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

— William Steig

I'm obsessed with this book 'Independent People,' by Halldor Laxness.

— Torrey Peters

I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.

— Joe Manganiello

Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.

— Anonymous

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

— John Milton

I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.

— Dinaw Mengestu