Book Quotes · Page 146

“The first rule of book club - is that nobody wants to talk about book club.”

— Douglas Lewis

I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.

— Margaret Atwood

“There is a big difference between an imperfect book that is read and a perfect book that is never written”

— Don Newman

Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different.

— Lauren Myracle

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

— Anonymous

I eat 'The Walking Dead' like its made of brains. Can't even watch the show, I love the book so much.

— Joss Whedon

The movies have made the comic books much more valuable and more respected.

— Stan Lee

I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.

— Gavin Newsom

“Anyone can write one book; for instance even politicians do it! Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional…

— Len Deighton

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

— Tahereh Mafi

“My nine-month journey through this room I would describe as one of trauma, rage and deceit, all topped off with a splash…

— Vicki Perry

'Marley Dias Gets It Done - And So Can You' is a book about how girls who are 10 and up -…

— Marley Dias

I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps…

— John Green

I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry…

— Thomas Paine

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of…

— Keith Miller

Generally the impulse to find justice through punitive measures can be a kind of quicksand. What James Whitman, the scholar I cite…

— Chris Hayes

If you like eating meat but want to eat ethically, this is the book for you. From the hard-headed, clear-eyed, and sympathetic…

— Marion Nestle

My books have been published all over Europe. They read me there, and I want to read them back. I also spend…

— Aleksandar Hemon

This [Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times Of An American Original] is another one of those books with the perfect blend of…

— Scott McClanahan

Every great literature has always been allegorical - allegorical of some view of the whole universe. The 'Iliad' is only great because…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Titles are very hard. Sometimes a title comes before I start to write the book, but often I finish the book, and…

— Eve Bunting

We believe in a moral code. Communism denies innate right or wrong. As W. Cleon Skousen has said in his timely book,…

— Ezra Taft Benson

And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of…

— Matt Haig

Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book.

— Malala Yousafzai

People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

— Bob Dylan

Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the…

— Kelly Clarkson

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

— Beverly Cleary

I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.

— Sarah Waters

This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books.

— Garrison Keillor

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.

— Neel Mukherjee

For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.

— Mitch Albom

If you read three books a day you couldn't read all the poetry that's being published.

— Robert Hass

If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.

— Kevin O'Leary

When a new book comes out or becomes accessible in whatever form, I get it and I read it.

— Christoph Waltz

I'd love a signed first edition of 'City of Glass' by Paul Auster. My favourite book of all time.

— Steven Hall

Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.

— John Wilmot

I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.

— Anonymous

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan

— Daniel Keyes

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

— Joseph Wambaugh