Book Quotes · Page 152

“Renee: "You know what I did when I finished Moby Dick?" David: "You harpooned the guy that sold you the book?”

— John C. Stipa

Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book.

— Franz Wright

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

— Ishmael Reed

I won't write a book. I haven't got a magnum opus in me.

— Nigel Pearson

“When I think of you, and you are not here, I see you in my mind's eye always with a book in…

— Cassandra Clare

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.

— Gustav Klimt

A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

— Louis L'Amour

“A book is a friend that gives all it has in return asks for nothing except its safety”

— Bharath Swaminathan

“My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is…

— Carl Sagan

“She dreamed of a world where books did not rot or give way to green blot, where words and ideas were not…

— Frances Hardinge

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you…

— Anonymous

It’s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies,…

— Ruth Stout

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

— Edward Gibbon

Tré on their first tour bus: It's, like, an ok tour bus and all, but people see book mobile on the side…

— Green Day

In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless…

— Francis Marion Crawford

The idea that when one reacts, one is not reacting to any one of those moments. You're reacting to the accumulation of…

— Claudia Rankine

But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published…

— Aaron Swartz

I've been asked to write a book several times; I've had several publishers come to me and offer me book deals. Especially…

— Mike Portnoy

One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends,…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

I dance with people I despise; amuse myself with men whose only talent lies in their feet, gain the disapprobation of people…

— Kate Chopin

The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't…

— Francis Darwin

In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is…

— Richard Sibbes

You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents…

— Michael Ian Black

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

— Ann Patchett

“Books are the salt of life; without them, there is no flavor.”

— Cheryl Koevoet

My mind is like a book. closed to people and full of words that dont want to be read.

— Kezz Marrow

Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side - and don't be stinchy, beby.

— Greta Garbo

I am particularly wary of authors who put themselves on the cover of their own book.

— Andy Dunn

“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party ...”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Is a self help or personal development book ruining your life?”

— Ken Poirot

The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.

— Richard Serra

When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.

— Elizabeth Berg

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

— Stanley Kubrick

A city without books, a city without a library is like a graveyard.

— Malala Yousafzai

I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.

— Mary Karr

When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.

— David McCullough

I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

— Jack Vance

Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.

— Anonymous

I write books to influence people I will never meet. Books increase my audience and my message.

— Les Parrott