Book Quotes · Page 144

“Nobody writes a book. What you write every day is a piece of a book, a fragment, a scene.”

— Philip Gerard

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

— Ellen Pompeo

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

— Salman Rushdie

I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.

— Dakota Blue Richards

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

— Arthur Helps

I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that

— Brad Thor

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

— Abraham Lincoln

'Sag Harbor' was a very different book for me. It changed the way I thought about books that I wanted to do.

— Colson Whitehead

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other…

— Anne Frank

“book (you are SO going to need a copy of this!) The Boat Owner’s Mechanical and Electrical Manual. This is the sea…

— Rick Page

But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

— Francis Bacon

“I had devoted my whole life to books; to bookshops; to booksellers; to bookish people like Charles and Alan. And in doing…

— Anthony Horowitz

When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writing about dogs, I…

— Jon Katz

“the book is intended to show how it is possible to live in and be enlarged by loss, even as we continue…

— Jerry Sittser

I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's…

— Anonymous

The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what…

— Michael Gerson

“Publishing a book is like giving birth. You labor over it and then produce what you think is the most beautiful thing…

— Jordan Silver

I agree we have enough books that attempt to explain why God allows suffering, presumably in a way that lets God off…

— Tullian Tchividjian

In a sense, Open City is a kind of Wunderkammer, one of those little rooms assembled with bric-a-brac by Renaissance scholars. I…

— Teju Cole

Tegus, I'm leaving this book behind for you, so you will know the why of it all, and maybe you'll forgive me,…

— Shannon Hale

I had an erroneous idea that writing a duology would be simpler than writing a trilogy because I would get to cut…

— Marie Lu

“Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe… Our…

— Tyler Cowen

I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right…

— Margaret Atwood

But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you…

— Bjorn Lomborg

Your job is to meet the right people and read the right books.

— Jeffrey Gitomer

The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

— Candace Kita

My idea of the perfect day is nothing to do and a great book on the go.

— Jane Fallon

“Never give more time to reading a book than to reflecting upon its contents.”

— Frank Morton McMurry

I gave myself two months to book a job. One month later I was cast on 'Modern Family.

— Sarah Hyland

“You‘ve got your whole life to write your first book and six months to write the second one.”

— Richard Lawrence Belford

No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute…

— Charles Stross

Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

— Sam Raimi

“Books are my refuge. I can crawl into the space between the pages and curl my back to loneliness.”

— Anubhav Mishra

“I buy books and tell myself that I am buying wisdom and at the end of my life, I own a house…

— Ken Chen

Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.

— Anonymous

“I write because the book I want to read has not been written yet.”

— Richard HR Penn

I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.

— Kate Morton

“When you open a book, you open the mind of the author.”

— Teni. A

Since the dawn of time every one will die, Let the history books note my death with loyalty at heart.

— Wen Tianxiang

It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.

— Sam Harris