Book Quotes · Page 145

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

— Katherine Paterson

We had become those guys... who started a fight... at a Harry Potter book party.

— Tucker Max

I enjoy working on a number of projects - books - at once.

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

“A person must first learn how to walk on their own before you can guide them in the right direction.”

— Craig Mercier

“The Girl With Nine Lives The Adventures of Benedict and Blackwell Book 1  ”

— Anonymous

I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.

— Sherman Alexie

if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

— Madeleine L'Engle

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

— Charles Dickens

There's a book called 'The Baron in the Trees.' A friend got that for me because I was kind of a tree-dwelling…

— Borns

As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said…

— Jen Lancaster

The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and…

— Walter Mosley

The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears:…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as…

— Laura Hillenbrand

I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me…

— Clayton Christensen

Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love'…

— Isaac Hanson

I met a bunch of comic-book writers at the Metropolis convention and there was such an interesting discussion about the story of…

— Helen Slater

There may never be a baby book that offers the conclusive answer to every question, but it's possible to extract some wisdom…

— Libby Copeland

When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite,…

— Jessica Valenti

A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books;…

— Mathew Roydon

It is always amusing to me and delightful of course that my books sell so well in America and other parts of…

— Tim Winton

“Pride, oh pride—a friend from the past, a bodyguard of the present, and an enemy of the future. Books, oh books—a friend…

— Mark O'Brien

For me music is pretty personal. I generally listen to it alone, and I've never been a lover of concerts. So I…

— Rick Moranis

“I like books cause they don't care if your knickers match your bra If you've washed your hair. I like books cause…

— Stephanie Butland

A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.

— Umberto Eco

Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“Sell your book like a can of beans & your readers will place the same value on it.”

— Stuart Aken

Yes! I am big comic book geek. I can't live without them.

— Stefan Kapicic

Great fashion is all about surprise. It should always be about doing something that isn't by the book.

— Reed Krakoff

“Develop an affirmation today, and start getting instant confirmation in all works of like.”

— Richmond Akhigbe

I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.

— William Shakespeare

Why you won an election and why you didn't is a subject of, you know, books that get written 20 years later.

— Rudy Giuliani

I wanted a picture of Jamaica that isn't in books, and certainly not in novels.

— Marlon James

The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author.

— George Sand

Outside of my work as a comic book creator and co-publisher, I'm an avid gamer.

— Jim Lee

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

— Anonymous

I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.

— Frederick Busch

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

— John Muir

I had to pinch myself seeing the grassy knoll and the book suppository building.

— Trevor Linden

Don't close a book you are reading until you read every word that was not written.

— Anonymous