Book Quotes · Page 165

“Bullets aren't going to better the world, but books can, and will.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

— Hortense Calisher

The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.

— William Glasser

“...The book of the hours - Tres Riche Heures - what did it matter when I had you?...”

— John Geddes

“Always have a camera in your hand and a book.in your bag.”

— Lauren Rachelle

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.

— Neil Gaiman

I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me.

— John Kluge

I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'

— Gillian Flynn

“He who doesn't see the essence of books shall surely be ruled by those who find and value the real essence of…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Who reads detailed contracts, articles or books anymore? 
That's why I shrunk my giant book into a Picturebook! But...Contracts & finance have…

— Lisa Goldin

The Guinness book is a very elitist organization. There's nothing scientific about what they do. They just have an office full of…

— Jack White

Our minds are shaped by the books we read. Our characters, by the people we meet. Our spirits by the love we…

— Anonymous

A beginning idea for a book might be: a boy emerges from a hole in the ground. He enters a house. The…

— Jesse Ball

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

— Mary Garden

If the very thought of taking off all your clothes in the middle of the Washington Mall during a school holiday makes…

— Nancy Mairs

Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening…

— David Byrne

After my first novel, my mother said to me, 'Why don't you make your writing more funny? You're so funny in person.'…

— Jonathan Ames

I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves,…

— Billy Collins

Reality is a state of mind. To the banker, the money in his ledger book is all very real, though he doesn't…

— Libba Bray

I would be researching seventeenth-century garden design or I would be doing something with Pepys, but I just kept using all of…

— Danielle Dutton

“Our every action has consequences. Thoughts have consequences. Since actions start from thoughts I guess I can say technically that thoughts in…

— Happy Positivity

“Beware, Underlanders, time hangs by a thread. The hunters are hunted, white water runs red. The Gnawers will strike to extinguish the…

— Suzanne Collins

“This is a book. It is a book I found in a box. I found the box in the attic. The box…

— Paul Harding

“My books are likely to contain food stains and rings from my tea cups. A book is to be lived with and…

— Kristin Cashore

Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.

— Edna Ferber

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

— Tryon Edwards

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.

— Haruki Murakami

We wanted the book [Paper Girls] to feel to evoke the '80s, but not necessarily feel that it was drawn then.

— Cliff Chiang

Relationships are like a book, in that they are for learning.

— Marshall Sylver

You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.

— Sara Gruen

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

— Francine Prose

“Until you opened it, the book was nothing that an untrained eye would look twice at.”

— Geraldine Brooks

“Every good book should take you to a brand new world: enjoy the journey!”

— Lynn Hardy

“Great books help you understand, and they help you to feel understood.”

— John Green

Few Amazon punters will explore a book with the depth of an 800-word review.

— Lionel Shriver

Really, if I'm honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes - I'm a big comic-book fan.

— Seth Rogen

“The imagination can never run dry if you fill it with books!”

— Jessica Munzlinger

There's all kind of vision in this Book. Just open it up and your people will follow.

— Matthew Carter

“No company like good books, especially the book of God.”

— Anonymous