Book Quotes · Page 174

A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

When I was 11, I knew that I wanted to write a kid's book and tell the world what it was like…

— Marlee Matlin

Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.

— Maggie Stiefvater

That book is good Which puts me in a working mood. Unless to Thought be added Will Apollo is an imbecile.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My goal is to get better with each book, and I feel like I am.

— George Pelecanos

Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.

— Bernie Taupin

Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.

— Gustave Flaubert

The Bible is no ordinary book. The words are like medicine to your soul, and it has the power to change your…

— Joyce Meyer

“Much love to everyone who expressed interest in my Book Giveaway!! I will be sending the winners their books this weekend; and…

— A. Tunson

Ninety percent of the children’s books patronize the child and say there’s a difference between you and me, so you listen to…

— Dr. Seuss

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter-…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To read is to have experiences; every book changes my life at least a little bit. The first time I can remember…

— Jonathan Franzen

I've already worked on at least a dozen dream books. I'm definitely not starving for something, like, "Agh, if only!" It's the…

— Ian Christe

What has happened in most of my books is the call to the extraordinary world, the hero's push, or that push has…

— Karan Bajaj

I am rather saddened at the end of a book. I think most writers find this. It's like a friend departing on…

— Margaret Atwood

A hopeful book that moms will relish, Blue Like Playdough is an honest, peel-back-the-covers look at the creative way God shapes us…

— Mary E. DeMuth

Overall, The Population Bomb was probably too optimistic. I was writing about climate change - Anne and I actually wrote the book.…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

“I'm not a book snub nor a person snub. All books, just as all people deserve a chance. Some seem to weave…

— T.I. Lowe

This book is dedicated to Sweet Loretta Modern. It's also dedicated to all the Jerichoholics who have stood behind me through all…

— Chris Jericho

When people live in the full light of an open society, paying their taxes, abiding by the rules, that makes not only…

— Martin O'Malley

Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment." Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in…

— Brandon Mull

I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing--that…

— Markus Zusak

One of the wonderful things about the computer is that it allows us to sit at home and either write a book…

— Frederick Lenz

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

— Chang-Rae Lee

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

— John Steinbeck

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

— Ice Cube

In my book, that's the most important thing: loving and taking care of your family.

— Teresa Giudice

“Somehow reading a book never feels like sitting still.”

— Jef Mallett

“Every book has a skeleton hidden between its covers. Your job as an analytical reader is to find it.”

— Mortimer J. Adler

“There comes a time when you have to lay the book down, stop thinking, talking and planning, and start doing.”

— Karl Vaters

“I'll illustrate the cover of your book for a million dollars. Wait, just let me find my crayons.”

— Ederyn Khushrenada

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

— Abraham Lincoln

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

— Barbara Cartland

“I just wrote the book of love. Well, I coauthored it with Cupid and Nicholas Sparks.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Every book read with pleasure up to its end deserves a five star rating.”

— Niovi Lyri

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

— Margaret Haddix

One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person.

— Nicole Krauss

I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.

— Cheryl Lynn

“IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE”

— Charleston Parker