Book Quotes · Page 150

When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of…

— Anna Quindlen

Look. All books are weird when you think about it… It goes without saying that real life is also weird.

— Kelly Link

“It’s a book which, no matter how many readers it will ever have, will never have enough.”

— Anonymous

You who think of us: they lived only in delusion... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!

— Czeslaw Milosz

Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.

— Martin Cruz Smith

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

— Sandra Cisneros

Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.

— Anonymous

Books changed my perception about the sacrifices we make as athletes.

— P. R. Sreejesh

The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the…

— James Dwight Dana

I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like…

— Mary Stewart

Getting the book published and the movie made was not an easy task. But it helped. Because even though it's a difficult…

— Molly Bloom

With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live.

— Steven Levitt

I use Pinterest for everything. Book collections, trips, hobbies. It's all there. I planned my wedding on it. When I had a…

— Ben Silbermann

Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read…

— Sid Fleischman

Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk,…

— John Cowper Powys

And I think about my cell at the Pawiak prison. During the first week I felt I would not be able to…

— Tadeusz Borowski

Helen Weaver’s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I…

— Carolyn Cassady

How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old -…

— Henry David Thoreau

Neil Shepard's (T)RAVEL/ UN(T)RAVEL takes us from the sublime -- Paris in Spring, sunset on Corfu -- to an unscheduled toilet stop…

— Charles Harper Webb

I can't wait for both my daughters to be old enough to read all my books. I loved it every time I…

— Edwidge Danticat

The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands, and it cannot remain within the little parallelpiped that…

— Michel Foucault

To exist is to defy all that threatens you. To be a rebel is not to accumulate a library of subversive books…

— Dominique Venner

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more…

— Samuel Gompers

The Bible is not a book of principles to live by but rather a Person to live for.

— Mark Driscoll

But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.

— Alison Bechdel

I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times...

— Maxwell Perkins

“It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.”

— T.S. Eliot

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

— Elizabeth Strout

Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?

— Kami Garcia

I need to go where I'm not comfortable. I think that's the artist's job.

— Kelly Sue DeConnick

How in the name of Merlin's pants have you managed to get your hands on those Horcrux books?

— Anonymous

“Are you the fruit of redemption? If yes, then make a delightful noise unto Him.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I always thought it would be so much fun to write a book.

— Julie Foudy

Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.

— Michael Moore

With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I…

— Anonymous

When I'm working on one book, part of my imagination is thinking ahead to the next one.

— Alastair Reynolds

The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

— Edmund White

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.

— Terry Bradshaw

“I haven't told why I wrote the book, but I haven't told you why I sneeze, either. A book is a sneeze.”

— E.B. White