Book Quotes · Page 19

“He said it was the kind of book you made your own.”

— Stephen Chbosky

“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.”

— Jessica Brockmole

“Time flies but books are timeless...”

— Nanette L. Avery

The Book of Mormon is to be feasted upon, not nibbled.

— Neal A. Maxwell

The best argument is an undeniably good book.

— Saul Bellow

“The right book exactly, at exactly the right time.”

— Robin Sloan

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

— Laurie Anderson

I don't like to make my life like a book.

— Marc Newson

“the only test any book should ever have to pass is whether the reader likes it”

— Clay Shirky

A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.

— Robert Breault

Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

— Daniel Clowes

I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little.

— Voltaire

“Books are so full of thoughts that some of them have learned to think.”

— Henry Hitchens (Browse

My books definitely are ambassadors, as you called them. They express what the vision is, what the purpose is.

— Sakyong Mipham

I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.

— M. C. Escher

“Two Chapters of "The Complete "Kids Want To Know" 5 Book Boxed Set”

— J.W. Patterson

I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual.…

— Jack Vance

I'm very much a people-pleaser, and with a book out, I had to learn that you can't please everybody with your book.

— Becky Albertalli

One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.

— Annalena McAfee

Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without…

— Ned Beauman

The book that meant most to me was 'The Wind in the Willows.' It sounds ridiculous, but that was my vision of…

— Justin Cartwright

I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who…

— Bryan Brown

I don't make that decision [what next book will be] until I've read enough to know that I've got something different to…

— John Shelby Spong

The Book of Mormon is concrete and solid, they can hold it, and they can visualize that they have to pray to…

— Richard G. Scott

The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he…

— Anonymous

Play the open variation of the Ruy is my advice to all ordinary club players, and I recently even wrote a book…

— Bent Larsen

Tayyip Erdogan wants to go beyond George W. Bush by making critical journalism and critics in the academy illegal. What will be…

— Tariq Ali

For seven years ancient Israel could not be stopped in the Joshua book. I have found this to be a great imagery…

— Max Lucado

My father always says, ‘Never trust anyone who has a TV bigger than their bookshelf.’ So I make sure I read. Back…

— Emilia Clarke

You can try reading books that will help you be a leader, like Marshall Rosenberg and Thich Nhat Hanh. Be very humble…

— Sandra Cisneros

As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual…

— Ben Katchor

I have never had any problems with editors who wanted me to change my methods or point of view. I pay a…

— Margaret Atwood

A good book is an education of the heart.

— Susan Sontag

I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.

— Rainbow Rowell

Anything worth anything can be found in books.

— Nora Roberts

Only the nonreader fears books.

— Richard Peck

Books + friendship = book club

— Kristin Hannah

Books are the best type of the influence of the past.

— William Wordsworth

“Skippy Jon Jones picture book”

— Lauren Blakely

“A book is like life, there are only so many chapters.”

— Liza D. Osae-Kwapong