Book Quotes · Page 175

The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than your own.

— Daniel Kahneman

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

— Anne Fadiman

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

— Jane Yolen

A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of…

— Lev Grossman

Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.

— George William Curtis

“people who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened 1 are right to be”

— Kurt Vonnegut

When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

— Daniel Kahneman

I did not read Gone with the Wind, although I've seen the movie, and I read every book on Margaret Mitchell.

— Shannen Doherty

The average actor might only be able to book six to eight guest star jobs a year - that would be high.…

— Beth Broderick

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

— Victor Hugo

If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in…

— Gloria Estefan

Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the…

— Rodger Kamenetz

I've never written a book with the intention of winning someone back or getting back at someone or anything like that. It's…

— Jeffrey Brown

I want people to laugh with me and Paraguay and Newfoundland, but I don't want to laugh at them. I hope in…

— John Gimlette

On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap…

— Sandra Bernhard

Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built

— Leon Uris

This is why I studied literature in college. This is why I became a teacher: to share in grand conversations about books,…

— Jeffrey D Wilhelm

I really believe that the movie will never be as good as the book, both because the book goes on longer -…

— Scott Turow

Generally I start writing when I have even the smallest idea of how a book is going to go, because the physical…

— Terry Pratchett

One of my great experiences in life was to be interviewed on a late-night talk show by a guy named Tom Snyder.…

— John Shelby Spong

And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of causes. And…

— Osip Mandelstam

“Let the grass die. I let almost all of my indoor plants die from neglect while I was writing the book. There…

— Annie Dillard

...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the…

— Salman Rushdie

Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song…

— Anonymous

“There are few things I like better in life than getting lost in a good book.”

— John Grisham

Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage.

— George W. Bush

“When adults read a book, they're two feet away; when children read it, they're right inside it.”

— Peggy Rathmann

[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.

— Khaled Hosseini

“Life is an open book as far as potential is concerned.”

— Steven Redhead

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

— Mary J. Blige

Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Al-Qur'an is not a book of Science, ‘S-C-I-E-N-C-E’ but a book of Signs ‘S-I-G-N-S

— Zakir Naik

We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.

— Charles Caleb Colton

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

— Edward Abbey

You can't learn mental fortitude in a book. Those things are earned, not learned.

— Caleb Plant

almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial.

— Tom Robbins

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

— Sarah Dessen

It is one of the great charms of books that they have to end.

— Frank Kermode

I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.

— Norma McCorvey

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

— William Makepeace Thackeray