Book Quotes · Page 182

I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

— Ernest Hemingway

They tell you not to judge a book by it's cover. Why don't you freaking listen to them.

— Andy James

“How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book?”

— Florence King

No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck.

— Woody Allen

I've never tried to pass myself off as anything more than a comedian who wrote a dating book.

— Greg Behrendt

Life is to short to waste time looking things up in a book. Just go to Google!

— Anonymous

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession.

— Abraham Lincoln

What's most interesting about some books is the question: How did this crap ever get published?

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian…

— Cressida Cowell

You want to know about creativity? Just go out and buy that book Imagine by Jonah Lehrer. It's only $29.00 in hardcover.

— Bob Dylan

I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic…

— Guy Maddin

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by…

— Joseph Addison

I watch some kids ask the cafeteria ladies to sign their books. What do they write: "Hope your chicken patties never bleed?"…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too…

— David Morrell

Books entered my house under cover of night, from the four winds, smuggled in by woodland creatures, and then they never left.…

— Anonymous

I was highly aware, in writing [the book] ROOM, that there are unsavoury aspects to our interest in such cases, and I…

— Emma Donoghue

I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say.…

— Salman Rushdie

We live and breathe words. … It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could…

— Cassandra Clare

The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists…

— Rebecca Solnit

Obviously loss of family is huge and critical, but I think really it's more about losing a sense of family. The horror…

— Chang-Rae Lee

I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen,…

— Annabelle Selldorf

In that six months, so much happened that death seemed, primarily, inconvenient. The trial period was extended. I seem to keep extending…

— Anonymous

Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that…

— Linda Pastan

The Bible is the book I read. It's got answers for everything.

— Scatman Crothers

My creator owned books sell better than my mainstream books. And that makes no sense.

— Kelly Sue DeConnick

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

— Abraham Lincoln

To me one of the most important things is launching a children's book division.

— Maria Rodale

“The intellectual mind judges a book after having read it. A fool’s mind judges a book by its title.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

I don't buy books, ever... and I only tend to read the sports press.

— Roberto Carlos

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.

— Antonia Fraser

I have just about every book written on the Klan and I've read them all.

— Daryl Davis

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

— Thomas Carlyle

Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.

— Junot Diaz

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

— Anonymous

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

— Edward P. Morgan

“The person following is never in control, which she knows full well and which is exactly why she does it.”

— Sara Gruen

“Don't let anything get in the way of reading a good book”

— Abby Noland

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

— Veronica Roth