Book Quotes · Page 180

I started writing serious books so late because I knew Id be accused of riding on my fathers coattails.

— Thomas Steinbeck

I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.

— Paulo Coelho

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

— Tao Lin

“Corrupt people fear books because they contain something more powerful than themselves: ideas.”

— Brandt Legg

Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.

— Neil Gaiman

while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.

— Edith Roosevelt

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

— Laurie Halse Anderson

We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.

— Barack Obama

“She was too tired to feel anything more, she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the…

— Lev Grossman

I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book,…

— Dan Mangan

Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you…

— Anonymous

Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just…

— Thomas Jefferson

They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of…

— John Steinbeck

We don't just live in books awake and dreams asleep. We are living stories, you and I, with dreams inside us undeniable,…

— Jamie Tworkowski

My primary job is to choose the programs, either to co-produce them, or acquire them after they're finished. So, I read a…

— Rebecca Eaton

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to…

— Bill Gates

I think Twitter is the literature of the 21st century. I think it's an incredible art because when you make a book,…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to…

— Julio Cortazar

I was a voracious reader and the library fed my curiosity, imagination and my soul. I read by the shelf - biographies,…

— Susan Sarandon

Awareness-mindfulness-is the first step in healing. In Counterclockwise, Dr. Ellen Langer eloquently describes how becoming more aware of our beliefs and expectations…

— Dean Ornish

I sold 'Time Life' books on the telephone. It's probably the only pure skill job I've ever had. When you're on and…

— David Nevins

It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid…

— Mel Torme

The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to…

— Fred Saberhagen

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“But holding a book always puts me at ease, knowing a happy ending is between my fingertips.”

— Jenni L. Walsh

Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.

— Umberto Eco

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.

— Stephen Chbosky

When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)

— Markus Zusak

Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living.

— Rosemary Clement-Moore

A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.

— Emily Barton

I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.

— Anonymous

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

— Tracy Chevalier

It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable.

— Charles Wright

Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.

— John Hughes

“That one special book that takes you on a trip you never expected to go on...”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

— Julius Lester

O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.

— William Shakespeare

Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.

— Adam Young

'The Book of Love' is the kind of James L. Brooks mainstream movie that the majors are ignoring.

— Dean Devlin

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson