Book Quotes · Page 171

I have a lot of respect for people who write a whole book because I've heard it will kill you.

— Mary H.K. Choi

Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

— Samuel Johnson

“Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book? It took me years to write, will you take a look?”

— Paperback Writer Beatles

Cooking is great, love is grand, but souffles fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!

— Claudia Christian

Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.

— Valerie Miner

It's just like sex; when [a book is] finished, it's finished.

— Haruki Murakami

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

— Anonymous

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

— Margaret Fuller

“Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults…

— Laura Kreitzer

Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried…

— Ashley Scott

She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if…

— Cornelia Funke

I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

— Jerry Garcia

There was an agent who wanted to book me for Glee. He lied and said I could sing. He was like, "If…

— Zach Anner

Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door…

— Martin Buber

I read 'The First Bad Man' by Miranda July, and I just thought, 'Oh my God, I'll never be this good. That…

— Jenny Mollen

When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have…

— Samuel Johnson

Do not accept anything simply because it has been said by your teacher, or because it has been written in your sacred…

— Gautama Buddha

It is clear that there must be difficulties for us in a revelation such as the Bible. If someone were to hand…

— R. A. Torrey

I hate to express political ideas directly in a book. I don't want my books to be seen as an expression of…

— Abdellah Taia

So far as the government is concerned, there is ­only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. The unity and…

— Narendra Modi

I think I've been mildly obsessed with my hair. I don't think I have a hugely adversarial relationship with it. One my…

— Elizabeth Benedict

“Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

It may well be feared, that there is not enough Biblereading among us. It is not sufficient to have the Book. We…

— J. C. Ryle

“After each book the world changes in my eyes, i have become more suspicious and eager at the same time.”

— Anna Jae

“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“The reader leaves his mark on the book, as the book leaves its mark on the reader.”

— Gabrielle Dubois

I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four...

— Judy Blume

In books I converse with men, in the Bible I converse with God.

— William Romaine

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

— Len Wein

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

— Anne Fadiman

If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.

— Andy Hargreaves

I'm writing all the books I wish I had when I was a kid.

— Jason Reynolds

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

— Calvin Trillin

“The number of books students read...is among the best indicators of student reading development.”

— Mike Schmoker

Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been.

— David McCord

“I'm a big fan of the local library. I just read a book, but that's another story.”

— British Sea Power

It's a book that makes me laugh and think - it would be very hard to like someone who didn't enjoy Candide!

— Mark Ravenhill

I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves…

— Alice Hoffman

I can't cook, but I have a nice book of menus... and I can plate and set the table.

— Chris Rock