Book Quotes · Page 163

Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great.

— Sam Amidon

The most difficult book I have ever read was a manual on the use of iron bangles by A.J. Thompson.

— Spike Milligan

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.

— Paul Auster

I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“The good characters in my book are loosely based on folks I know. All the bad stuff is made up.”

— Mike Bove

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

— Nell Freudenberger

The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place.

— Irvine Welsh

Humor is important for is pacing. If your whole book is just drama drama drama, it's going to wear down the reader.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I’m asking the questions tonight.” One day I was going to write a book: How to Dictate to a Dictator and Evade…

— Karen Marie Moning

My laptop broke and because of the storm I could not get a new one. And so I've been promoting my book…

— Jami Attenberg

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating.

— Mary Karr

I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into…

— Freya Stark

I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than…

— Jess Walter

Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to…

— Charles Stross

I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The…

— John Quincy Adams

“The readings required of every Confucian scholar. The Four Books are: The Analects, The Great Learning, the Doctrine of the Mean, and…

— Issai Chozanshi

I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story,…

— Steven Spielberg

I was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that…

— Lisa Yuskavage

Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes…

— Frank H. T. Rhodes

The seriousness or otherwise of the subject matter is often irrelevent to the question of whether a book is any good. F…

— Declan Lynch

“The store owner had settled himself behind the counter again and was reaching for his book. "The journey will test your sanity."…

— Natasha Mostert

I wouldn't say that 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' is a book on cosmology. Cosmology certainly plays a big part, but the…

— Brian Greene

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.

— Mitch Albom

For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.

— Lee Child

I thought that words and books and pens were more powerful than guns.

— Malala Yousafzai

“The next time I had nothing to do, I'd have to get a book on testosterone-driven behavior.”

— Richelle Mead

I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.

— Terence Stamp

The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.

— Mickey Spillane

When I was training to be a pilot, there was a large section in the book on how to drop mail from…

— Rahul Gandhi

I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books.

— Sue Monk Kidd

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

— J. K. Rowling

I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book!

— Chip Kidd

With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.

— Andre Gide

Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.

— Kin Hubbard

“The choice is yours. Don't let your pronouncements destroy your destiny rather let them build your future up!”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library.

— Anonymous

When people come up to me and say, 'I read your book,' I'm thinking, 'How dare you! Who gave you a copy?'

— Steve Toltz

Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.

— Anonymous