Book Quotes · Page 178

If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it.

— John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara

Realistically, the chance of any book becoming a film is slim.

— Kenneth Oppel

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

— Barbara Tuchman

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.

— Maurice Sendak

There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie.

— Dick Wolf

I always rip out the last page of a book, then it doesn't have to end. I hate endings.

— Steven Moffat

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

— Rainn Wilson

People call books holy, but they are yet to realize that life is holy.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Maybe I'd be a storyboard artist. Graphic novel/comic book artist. Backup dancer. Singer. It would be cool to focus on one of…

— Jade Hassoune

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them;…

— Andre Maurois

Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do…

— Michael Lewis

Of course it is very limiting to be labeled a lesbian or queer writer. We live in a homophobic culture, and even…

— Michelle Tea

When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of…

— Jim Butcher

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took…

— Anita Diament

The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write…

— Anne Enright

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I prefer sidekick. I tried once for the title of Padawan, but Bubba wigged out saying that mentors are always killed off…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

That's what I tried to share in this book, Back From The Dead, the ability to learn, to dream, to hope. In…

— Bill Walton

A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last…

— Jules de Goncourt

Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those…

— Laurie R. King

Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life…

— Louisa May Alcott

I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it-astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed. . . . It really is an…

— Jonathan Lethem

“Dune; Nova; Double Star; The Corridors of Time; Cat's Cradle; Half Past Human; Murder in Retrospect; Gideon's Day; The Red Right Hand;…

— Larry Niven

“Publishing a book does not make you an authority or an expert. Authorship doesn’t not equal authority.”

— Loren Weisman

“Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!”

— George MacDonald

People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.

— Neil Strauss

You'll never go to the library and find a book on how to fail, because we all do it.

— Rush Limbaugh

Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.

— George Gilfillan

Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

— Jon Weisman

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

— Dawn Addams

“Either way, you wrote the book and now you’re complaining about the reviews I’m giving it,” I quipped.”

— Tarryn Fisher

No eyes can read the future, because it is a book not yet written!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite…

— John Banville

Books are as important to a fool as a mirror to a blind..

— Kshitij Roshan

For each book, I do end up making a kind of playlist to fit the characters.

— Meg Cabot

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

— Samuel Johnson

“Yes, it’s true that you can’t learn everything from books. But you do learn something about everything.”

— Jessica Zafra

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

— Virginia Woolf