Book Quotes · Page 170

In books they don't have deleted scenes, like with DVDs. You could have your deleted scene in a book as well!

— Wim Wenders

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.

— Swami Vivekananda

To be completely honest, I didn't know 'Twilight' was a book.

— Kellan Lutz

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.

— Brian K. Vaughan

“When in doubt keep reading. A book will never die on you”

— John van de Ruit

I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.

— Jean M. Auel

If I'm doing something I know I can pull off, then that's not the book I should be writing.

— Jennifer Egan

“The whole of Nature is a book, the heavens a scroll; and they were intended to be used as such.”

— John Daniel

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in…

— Julia Alvarez

It was not until I began to write a book called 'Light Years' that an editor really stepped in. The editor was…

— James Salter

“They hauled books from the shelves, flipped through the pages, and tossed them to the floor until an entire library of legal…

— Ariel Lawhon

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the…

— Jane Austen

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the…

— Kate DiCamillo

I do admit to mocking atheists, because mockery is a legitimate form of debate according to my rule Book. God Himself mocks…

— Ray Comfort

I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my…

— Frederick Lenz

Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators…

— Karin Slaughter

In a 22-page comic, figuring an average of four to five panels a page and a couple of full-page shots, a writer…

— Mark Waid

In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the…

— Thomas Paine

“Each of those churches shows certain books, which they call revelation, or the Word of God. The Jews say that their Word…

— Thomas Paine

When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original…

— Philip Wylie

I am aware there are books that instruct you on how to manipulate the market, stocks and people... they might even help…

— Bob Proctor

A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

— T. S. Eliot

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

— Tom Felton

You can find my book at your favorite bookstore, and if it isn't there, find a new favorite.

— Joan Rivers

But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!

— Robert Musil

I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV anymore.

— Daphne Guinness

If we are to put a stop to corruption and state capture, those responsible must be brought to book.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

I read more books than you can imagine on all sorts of odd topics, which is something that I love.

— Scott Hutchins

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone.

— Jenny Han

“It's risky most of the time, but its better to listen to your heart.”

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

“Write the book the way it should be written, then give it to somebody to put in the commas and shit.”

— Elmore Leonard

“We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.”

— J.R. Rim

“Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.”

— James Jeffrey Roche

He was taking 30 seconds to book a player. He was needing a rest. It was ridiculous.

— Alex Ferguson

“The sign of a good book is that it entertains you. The sign of a great book is that it changes you.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Writing a book is very similar to a Politicians speech providing the book is Fantasy.”

— DENNIS SEDDON