Book Quotes · Page 140

“I know the story by heart. The book is just a "do not disturb" sign, to make sure no one talks to…

— Laura Bradley Rede

Every filmmaker has this short book of films that don't get made - for a whole host of reasons.

— Debra Granik

I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.

— Philip Roth

'Underworld' was my first filmed book. I think there are about seven of my lines in it.

— Clive Barker

I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.

— Barbara Mertz

My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.

— Adrianne Palicki

My entire book was typed with three fingers and a very confident space-bar thumb.

— Sarah Millican

Sarah Palin's book is big, 400 pages. She wrote the book herself and agonized over every word, and so will you.

— David Letterman

I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American…

— Lisa Scottoline

I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will…

— John Wesley

'Detroit' started based on a book called 'The Singularity is Near' by Ray Kurzweil, which is about this idea that one day…

— David Cage

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I…

— Tom T. Hall

If you stay by the book, it's not always going to work. You've got to venture off a little bit. But you…

— Matt Cain

“[ Fahrenheit 451 ] is a book of warning. It is a reminder that what we have is valuable, and that sometimes…

— Neil Gaiman

I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and…

— Matthew Specktor

“I thought again what an achievement a book is, a magic box simultaneously holding the presence of the author and the wonders…

— Ivan Doig

Spirit discernment is rare because it is expensive. It means a sensitive conscience, an instructed understanding through study of the Book of…

— S. D Gordon

My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is…

— Lincoln Child

A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which…

— Virginia Woolf

A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen…

— Alexander Gardner

The love story between the hero and the heroine has to be at the center of the book. I think that's pretty…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Kevin Freeman has been warning America’s leadership of the dangers of financial terrorism for the last three years. It is happening now…

— William G. Boykin

I think that Indian writing in English is a really peculiar beast. I can't think of any literature - perhaps Russian literature…

— Pankaj Mishra

Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your…

— Bernard Cornwell

Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.

— James Patterson

“Life is way too short, so try to enjoy every minute of it with a sense of humor!”

— Christina Scalise

I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.

— Frank Delaney

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

— Francois Mitterrand

I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.

— Michael Connelly

I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book's autograph.

— Kanye West

Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years.

— Hugh Dancy

Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.

— Michel de Montaigne

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

— Anonymous

“In the pages of a book, you can find the universe within a single heartbeat.”

— Umesha Chathurangi Handapangoda

“This is also a book abut God, about what it means--and what it doesn't mean--to believe.”

— Emily P. Freeman

Saying the Bible is not a book about science is like saying a cookbook is not a book about chemistry.

— Robert J. Marks II

A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.

— Holly Black

I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.

— Michel de Montaigne

“like to ask you for one small favor. If you liked my book”

— Anonymous

I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

— A. Scott Berg