Book Quotes · Page 158

“Choices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Sometimes readers are telling me about what they read of my books and I don't remember at all.

— Peter Handke

In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.

— Salman Rushdie

Its a very good book and i wish i read it first than anyone else!!!!

— Wendy Mass

Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.

— Zora Neale Hurston

“the wonderful thing about books was that they were films that played inside your head.”

— Ruth Hogan

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

— Louis Pasteur

“It's all about the books. Please, somebody rein me in!”

— Terry Ech

It's one thing to be a comic book fan, but when you have to create a character and put him in a…

— Salim Akil

I've heard the joke a million times that "Jews in Sports" must be the thinnest book in the world. Actually, I've seen…

— Dolph Schayes

I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding…

— Genevieve Gorder

You know what's fun? You pick somebody at random, like out of the phone book, and send them about 100 'Just Because'…

— Brian Regan

I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as…

— Judy Blume

Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless! And they stay in the desert! Jackals piss…

— Gustave Flaubert

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they…

— Anonymous

It's fun to see someone grow as a writer, moving from their first workshopped poems to publishing their earliest poems to having…

— Allison Joseph

The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion…

— Ben E. King

[A comic book writers' union] will never happen. Someone will always be willing to write Batman for free. ... You sit at…

— Matt Fraction

By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred…

— Edgar Allan Poe

But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the…

— Pat Conroy

“Every book should begin with attractive endpapers,' he had once told Meggie. 'Preferably in a dark color: dark red or dark blue…

— Cornelia Funke

“The trouble with education is,' said Jimmy cheerfully, 'that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means.…

— Margaret Ayer Barnes

My first book was called 'Buried Dreams,' about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It…

— Tim Cahill

I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.

— Jo Walton

“we are all privately agreed that it is better in books”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

My go-to author for knowing it all is Evelyn Waugh. 'A Handful of Dust' is as perfect as a book can get.

— Laurie Graham

You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.

— Anonymous

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

— Rob Machado

My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.

— Ernest Cline

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Some books are well-received with critics; other books sell.

— Colson Whitehead

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

— Ibrahim Babangida

“Sure. But if the book sucks, we’re re-evaluating the friendship.”

— Colleen Hoover

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

— Carlos Fuentes

A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.

— Don DeLillo

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

— Oscar Wilde

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.

— Lisa Morton

In a book, you can kind of take time and have lulls in places.

— Wes Ball

“Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet.”

— Neil Gaiman