Book Quotes · Page 148

How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.”

— David Benioff

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.

— Anonymous

“The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader.”

— Paulo Coelho

Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.

— Glen Cook

I would not dare so dishonor my Creator's name by attaching it to this filthy book.

— Thomas Paine

Any man who reaches for a book when he thinks about you is a man that you should think about.

— Mohammed Hanif

I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.

— Rebecca Wells

People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the…

— Joe Queenan

Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since…

— David Toop

“beginning of this book that the instruction in reading that it provides applies to anything you have to or want to read.…

— Charles Van Doren

I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have…

— Orson Scott Card

I had to keep the text pretty spare compared to what I would typically do in a picture book. My picture books…

— Laurie Keller

Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been…

— Clifton Fadiman

“Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing the book,…

— E. Nesbit

It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973].

— Hershel Shanks

There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things…

— Ethan Canin

I really like looking at other people's book collections when I'm at someone's house. I think it is an amazing cross section…

— Phil Elvrum

Yes, I saw Twilight - my granddaughter made me watch it, she said it was the greatest vampire film ever. After the…

— Lauren Bacall

“A book about courage-a long string of tiny courageous steps. It is also about hope and faith and love. It is modest,…

— Alice Warrender

I just wanted to speak to you about something from the Internal Revenue Code. It is the last sentence of section 509A…

— Ronald Reagan

For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity,…

— David Hume

I often meet frustrated young writers who say they've only got so far and just can't finish a book. Even if you…

— Eoin Colfer

If the man who observes the myriad stars, and considers that they and their innumerable satellites move in their serene dignity through…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

You are the book; there is only one version with many chapters.

— Aroha Janet

“Books are road map to your destination called success. Refer to good ones.”

— Vikrmn

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

— Samuel Johnson

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

— Anonymous

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

— Patricia A. McKillip

In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity.

— Frank Miller

As far as I'm concerned, the book's never closed with Sabbath!

— Bill Ward

“You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page. I can tell. You've got words in your soul.”

— Jay Kristoff

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

— G. M. Trevelyan

I manage to read about one book a month, all fantasy these days.

— Mark Lawrence

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

— Wislawa Szymborska

“The diarist [Anthony Powell] has never adhered to the tedious practice of reading only one book at a time”

— Lady Violet Powell

One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book.

— Frances Harper

I do like Philip Pullman.And that's an exception because Philip Pullman's books allow magic.

— Richard Dawkins

“the books shot off the shelf like academic projectile puke.”

— Leigh Evans

The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.

— Edmund Spenser