Book Quotes · Page 166

“My books are inspired by children - sometimes my own. My writing is powered by chocolate - not always my own!”

— Cas Lester

Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

— Taslima Nasrin

“Arthur felt as though he were being read like a book, and wondered whether this girl would like his story.”

— Kiersten White

I jerk off inside books and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you probably never heard.

— Immortal Tech

Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.

— Theodore Parker

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

— Anonymous

“You think of me like a book?' 'Of course,' she said. 'To open your pages is to be taken into another world.”

— Beatrice Colin

I like to co-author books to learn from those I write with.

— Dave Ulrich

My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice,…

— Thomas Love Peacock

“Don't take purposeless people as your leaders. Their life is like an empty book with a nice cover paper and you have…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The book [Manufacturing Consent] itself is then devoted to a series of case studies, selected, we hope [with Edward Herman], to offer…

— Noam Chomsky

I'm sure that I'll never have another success like Harry Potter for the rest of my life, no matter how many books…

— J. K. Rowling

My creative process involves reading books and magazines, writing outside, and moving around a lot. I like to pace around when I'm…

— Judith Hill

“I hope people of the future will remember my books for being burned, and I challenge an elite few to imagine the…

— Bauvard

“And the light by which she had been reading the book of life, blazed up suddenly, illuminating those pages that had been…

— Leo Tolstoy

I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able…

— Anonymous

What I'm really interested in, as a reader and as a writer, is the idea of the nonfiction book that is not…

— Geoff Dyer

So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still…

— Anonymous

You have to understand that the Bible is really a library of books and it has different categories of material. There are…

— Desmond Tutu

When one tries to increase his knowledge by doing mental gymnastics over books without waiting upon God and looking to the guidance…

— Watchman Nee

All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us…

— Thomas Carlyle

Richard Hofstadter, in his famous book which was written in the time of the McCarthy period in the 1950 and 1960s, Anti-intellectualism…

— Joan Wallach Scott

I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they…

— Nathan Fillion

I am not one to generalize, but cartoonists, as a group, exhibit a level of social sophistication generally associated with pie fights.…

— Dave Barry

“If there's a better book than this, I haven't written it.”

— Stephen Colbert

It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.

— Mary MacLane

“Any self-help book in the world will tell you that you can’t just run your past away.”

— Krysten Ritter

“our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry - women of color”

— Rupi Kaur

I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.

— Winona Ryder

Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens.

— Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon

“I had books. Reading them is like travelling to other places. Being other people. Living other lives.”

— Liz Braswell

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

— Franz Kafka

Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.

— Jim Woodring

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

A good book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

— Roy Blount, Jr

I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

— Sara Sheridan

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

— Patrick Ness

Psychologists and psychiatrists send me cards and say, 'Hey, I love your books.'

— Joe R. Lansdale

Your life is a book and when Someone leaves its only the end of a chapter not the end of your story.

— Anonymous

A book is a most delightful companion. It gives, and does not take.

— Moses ibn Ezra