Book Quotes · Page 154

You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it.

— Giovannino Guareschi

If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

— Vincente Minnelli

And the history books forgot about us, and the bible didn’t mention us

— Regina Spektor

“Everyone has a book inside them - but it doesn't do an good until you pry it out.”

— Jodi Picoult

“I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life.”

— Anna Quindlen

At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

— Norman Maclean

Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating.

— Ryan O'Neal

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

— Kevin J. Anderson

I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does…

— Chris Van Allsburg

The first comic I read was a Spider-Man comic, and my introduction to it was through my family. My cousins are a…

— Joivan Wade

The thing that I prefer, when I'm working on a book, is to do a seven-day week, because it's easy to lose…

— Donald E. Westlake

Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for…

— Jesse James Garrett

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

— Charles Baudelaire

After writing 'The Omnivore's Dilemma,' I wanted to write a book that got past the choir, that got to people who didn't…

— Michael Pollan

Whenever I'm asked to autograph a copy of 'Nudge,' the book I wrote with Cass Sunstein, the Harvard law professor, I sign…

— Richard Thaler

I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward,…

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

I think part of why schizophrenia got linked to civil rights protest in the '60s was because mainstream society was coding threats…

— Jonathan Michel Metzl

What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and…

— Tansy Rayner Roberts

When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms…

— Djuna Barnes

When I write a team book, it's all about how they relate to each other and what they bring to the team…

— Gail Simone

M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else,…

— Victor Hugo

For the record, my own loyalties are uncomplicated. I adore few humans more than I love books. I make no promises, but…

— Ben Ehrenreich

O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With…

— Andrew Lang

“One of the tragic ironies of modern life is that so many people feel isolated from each other by the very feelings…

— Brené Brown

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book.

— Catharine Beecher

Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written.

— Anthony Burgess

I'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever.

— David Crabb

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

— Cornelia Funke

I think my funny books are my favorites because I like to laugh so much.

— Dav Pilkey

Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

— Mark Twain

“Getting married early is like wrestling with calculus on a merry trip to Las Vegas!”

— Kiran Joshi

A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.

— Alphonse Karr

Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

— Rodman Philbrick

My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.

— Honeysuckle Weeks

“Books can send you to another dimension, a dimension exclusive only for the readers.”

— My Self

My freind is the man who gives me a book I aint read."Abraham Linclion

— John Flanagan

No book or expert can protect us from the range of painful emotions that make us human.

— Harriet Lerner

You have to learn how to do each book. It's a different world, a different show.

— Mordicai Gerstein

Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.

— Neil Gaiman