Book Quotes · Page 161

There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.

— Norman Douglas

The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

— Wayne Dyer

All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

— Jeanne Henry

Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.

— Bill Watterson

With 'Machine of Death,' we became the #1 bestselling book on Amazon in a single day.

— Ryan North

Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land, as the sower sows his wheat-field.

— Horace Mann

I can't think of any flower that wouldn't be suitable to merge with an image of a newborn, and as I was…

— Anne Geddes

Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I…

— John Fante

I learned that books could be collected, that they were important enough to keep and that a story that seemed to be…

— Ramona Koval

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined…

— Peter Straub

“It doesn't what people think about the book you are reading. Just read the book that you love to read or want…

— Roshell Jayasekara

Every freak has a mother. When I met Marilyn Manson I was struck by how nice he was. People are rarely as…

— Boy George

I wanted to do comic books... as a comic book artist, as an illustrator. But I'm not very good so I thought…

— Gaspar Noe

We really have no definition of mother in our law books. Mother was believed to have been so basic that no definition…

— Marianne O. Battani

In several speeches and interviews, Donald Trump has brought up his book 'The Art of the Deal,' and said that Obama would…

— Jimmy Fallon

We have endless books about whether Jesus existed, or whether the Jesus we have learned about is really accurate and historical or…

— Joseph Girzone

“This book is about confronting your bad behaviors. It’s about understanding your infuriating inconsistencies. It’s about stripping the stereotypes that surround your…

— Heidi Priebe

Young men, of course, don't want to be guided by old back numbers, but at the same time I know that in…

— Robert Baden-Powell

A novel must work as a story because no one's going to get to the other themes if you don't entertain the…

— Robert Cormier

“Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford to be different. The world was roomy. But then…

— Ray Bradbury

I subscribe to the theory that reading a book is similar to walking a trail, and I'm most comfortable walking when I…

— Anthony Doerr

...the Bible itself is less read than preached, less interpreted than brandished. Increasingly, pastors may drape a limply bound Book over the…

— Harold Bloom

Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities.

— Karl G. Maeser

Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.

— Cornelia Funke

Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.

— Joe Queenan

If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, it's that they honor working people.

— Adriana Trigiani

Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books

— Aravind Adiga

“A memory, pressed into my heart like a leaf in a book.”

— Jenny Han

“If you can't find the book you want to read, write it.”

— William Muller

You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.

— Nick Hornby

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

— Kate Adie

If pornography releases sexual tension, why don't we send recipe books to the starving?

— Andrea Dworkin

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

— Louis L'Amour

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.

— Terri Windling

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

— Franz Kafka

I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.

— Ken Thompson

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost…

— Paul Sweeney

“Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don’t fall.”

— Henry Mosquera