Book Quotes · Page 142

I can't write a book like 'Lamb' or 'Fool' every year. It just takes too much research and craft.

— Christopher Moore

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

— Elie Wiesel

The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.

— Jerry Kramer

All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.

— Tom Paulin

The world is like a book, if you do not travel you only read a page

— Anonymous

In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.

— Ernest Hemingway

skulduggery pleasant is the best book I've ever read and has enspired myself to become an author.

— Derek Landy

I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.

— Ann Patchett

Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and…

— Guy Browning

No one ever had a better father than I did. Father was a disciplinarian, and Mother was a very loving woman who…

— James E. Faust

I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is…

— Kate Zambreno

The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the…

— Susan Stewart

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

We all hope that TV will bring something added to the book - not just an audience - it will bring an…

— Gerald Seymour

I'm so glad that social media gives me a chance to do that, to celebrate books I love and help proselytize for…

— Jennifer Weiner

I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead'…

— Gale Anne Hurd

“Try to avoid your house catching fire, as this does no good at all. And while your house is still intact, it…

— Joseph Connolly

I meditated on my own for some time, read spiritual books, became a vegetarian and had incredible experiences every day, every meditation,…

— Frederick Lenz

Harcourt sent my book to Evelyn Waugh and his comment was: “If this is really the unaided work of a young lady,…

— Flannery O'Connor

I wrote this book [ Desperate Marriages] because of my own marriage. My wife and I struggled greatly in the early years…

— Gary Chapman

I believe that everybody needs to tell their story - to be heard, to be seen, to be acknowledged, to be understood.…

— Shakti Gawain

The strange and wonderful Book of Job treats of the same subject as we are discussing; its contents are a fiction, conceived…

— Maimonides

I got myself a really nice nib pen, with like 15 kinds of India Ink, and tons of different nibs; I think…

— Demetri Martin

The Bible is not considered an accurate, absolute, authoritative, or authoritarian source but a book to be experienced and one experience can…

— Brian D. McLaren

The things that are really important to me are my man, my animals and my books. I don't need anything else.

— Mary Crosby

“If our love was a story book, we would meet on the very first page.”

— Shayne Ward

In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved.

— Anonymous

You can't throw a rock without a comic book character falling out of a tree.

— Morena Baccarin

My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.

— Lev Grossman

I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.

— Terry Eagleton

Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

— Leo Tolstoy

He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.

— Charles Lamb

The great thing about fiction is that everything you care about ends up going into the book.

— Peter Heller

As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“You don't have to pay its rent just because it is a book.”

— Susan Hill

“I press my books against my chest like a bulletproof vest.”

— Amelia Kahaney

“I bought a book on willpower, but I only got halfway through.”

— Stewart Lee Beck

Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.

— David Gelernter

“This book has awoken something in me. I don't know what it is, but it feels good.”

— C.M. Stunich

When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.

— James Bryce