Book Quotes · Page 162

I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.

— A.J. Ayer

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

— Charles Caleb Colton

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

— Mark Twain

A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

What better book can there be than the book of humanity.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer.

— Elizabeth Berg

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

— William Ralph Inge

The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came…

— Ann Voskamp

Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end…

— John Green

It is quite possible, and not uncommon, to read most laboriously, even so as to get by heart the words of a…

— Richard Whately

I wrote about Herschell in my book 'Shock Value,' for which I interviewed him. We became friends; I had dinner with Herschell…

— John Waters

“I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs…

— Gail Carriger

Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published…

— Joyce Carol Oates

a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who…

— Cynthia Ozick

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not…

— Kathryn Stockett

“I hate lending, or borrowing—if you want me to read a book, tell me about it, or buy me a copy outright.…

— Leah Price

Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow…

— Carlo Collodi

Forget about Republican or Democrat - what about the kid in the middle of the country who wants to play the drums,…

— Kimberly Peirce

There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we…

— Michel de Montaigne

And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book…

— Thomas a Kempis

One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use…

— Justin Cronin

There was a time when going out to parties and dinner parties and clubs was an exciting thing to do. I'd wake…

— Gina Bellman

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to…

— George W. Bush

No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer.

— John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

Honestly, so much of my book is about the best things in my life have happened since I'm 40.

— Carol Leifer

Dedication: For librarians and booksellers everywhere, who gather books and build shelters for tender souls.

— Tessa Dare

“If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!”

— Orson Welles

The best vacation is still a book, a renewable ticket to places real and imaginary.

— Charles McGrath

Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do.

— Bill Bryson

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.

— Bertrand Russell

For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“reading books chronically understimulates the senses.”11”

— Nicholas Carr

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him

— Walter Mosley

I'm trying to read a book on how to relax, but I keep falling asleep.

— Anonymous

I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.

— Ace Frehley

Close the back cover of the book, move on and find something else to do.

— Ramandeep Singh

You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.

— Erica Bauermeister

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

— Christopher Morley