Book Quotes · Page 168

May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!

— Kate DiCamillo

Goodbyes hurt when the story is not finished and the book has been closed.

— Anonymous

There's no book to figure out how not to become a victim of police brutality.

— Mike Colter

I am prolific. Any rubbish I write gets published, so books keep churning out.

— Khushwant Singh

As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.

— Anthony Browne

“Live to learn and you'll learn to live. from the book 'I Know Who You Are!”

— Fatima Masood

I don't need you to love me. I don't want you to hate me, but just don't judge a book by its…

— Christian Laettner

I always revise when I publish in a book. So versions in magazines are sometimes slightly different.

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

There are days now where I think, "Oh man, that would've been a great entry," but I'm putting the pen down until…

— Andy Cohen

When you're done [with writing a book], people tell you "Well, gee, I'm not interested." "Great, I'm glad I sat down and…

— Lewis Black

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the…

— Edmund Hillary

I was in the South of France. I saw a Brownie on a school trip. She was holding up a book. It…

— Jimmy Carr

As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you…

— Bernhard Schlink

One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways…

— Nelson Mandela

It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on…

— Lisa Jewell

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are…

— Arthur Ransome

The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the…

— Jorge Luis Borges

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today,…

— Maya Angelou

And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Always have a book to read, instead of indulging in vain conversation. Strive to learn English…Remember this, that you cannot commit some…

— Christmas Evans

What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it…

— Yann Martel

And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page…

— Anne Lamott

I would still be reading out loud. I think that if you are any kind of an artist, then validation is just…

— David Sedaris

I am interested in people, and I am interested enough in people that I want to be friends with a lot of…

— Lynne Tillman

I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy.

— Natalie Dormer

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I feel there's nothing like a good classic book, except possibly its movie version.”

— George Kohlman

Everyone reads the same words in a book but has a very clear picture of their own.

— Tuppence Middleton

Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.

— Keith Miller

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

— David Strathairn

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.

— Roddy Doyle

Books alone are liberal and free; they give to all who ask; they emancipate all who serve them faithfully.

— Richard de Bury

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

— Erica Jong

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

— Anonymous

“Books aren't made of pages and words.Tehy are made of hopes,dreams and possibilities.”

— Harlequin

It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.

— Donna Tartt

I knew a book of mine was finished when I was in intensive care.

— Kate Braverman

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

— John Green

Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.

— Walter Mosley

our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read

— Harvey Mackay