Book Quotes · Page 185

As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.

— Albert J. Nock

People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.

— Wislawa Szymborska

Mistake is a single page of life but relation is a complete book. So dont lose a full book for a single…

— Anonymous

The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.

— Alec-Tweedie

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.

— Paul McCartney

The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.

— Henry David Thoreau

Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.

— Mark Twain

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and…

— Nina Bawden

One of my biggest fears with 'Coloring Book' was that it would be labeled. I hate labels. I never sought out for…

— Chance The Rapper

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you…

— Desiderius Erasmus

If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever…

— Irving Kristol

I have an eclectic taste in stuff whether it be movies or music or books or food or anything. Variety is interesting.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The consumer mentality - we like something, what other flavor does it come in? We like that TV show, does it come…

— Paul Reiser

My relationship with Andrew JiYu Weiss has always been inspirational, his support and guidance always beneficial. My hope is that those who…

— Claude AnShin Thomas

When I'm writing a book, I draw from my immediate experience, and my books are therefore almost a snapshot of where I…

— Maria Semple

To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to…

— Charles Handy

In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men,…

— H. G. Wells

I read the books and I really, really wanted to play the part. I started kundalini yoga, kickboxing and running, and completely…

— Gwendoline Christie

Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was…

— Thomas Merton

I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my…

— Shimon Peres

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason…

— Anna Quindlen

I have always discouraged young writers from self-publishing, by which I mean going to a vanity publisher and spending your hard earned…

— Ruskin Bond

“It’s kind of sad how much value I was placing in the heaps of books I owned. Obviously it was more than…

— Joshua Fields Millburn

I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.

— Jane Goldman

Loving you is a thing that I can never stop in my life, so lets be two volumes in one book.

— Anonymous

It is not the text book but the text people that make a difference in the lives of children.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.

— Lev Grossman

I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one.

— Jason Biggs

Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.

— Seth Godin

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

— Julian Barnes

Always I'm working on some of book. That's the way I make a living.

— Jimmy Carter

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

I'm always trying. Between every book, I think, 'Well now, it's time to get down to the serious stuff.'

— Alice Munro

I have a very short attention span, so books have never been my thing.

— Jason Jones

“Quit Believing in Lies and Always Search For the Truth!”

— Charleston Parker

In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces.

— Alix Kates Shulman

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

— Lynda Barry

The most important book on the Internet is, essentially, the Internet.

— John Hodgman

An actors real job is going on lots of auditions! When you book the job that's the fun part!

— Chloe Noelle