Book Quotes · Page 191

When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.

— Saint Augustine

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

— Carly Fiorina

I get really bored if I don't have more than one thing going on.

— Jewel

“A book may be not just what it says in the text, but the background beneath it.”

— Angelina Hu

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

— George W. Bush

Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books.

— Mark Lawrence

My showbiz career started with 'SNL,' and to write an 'SNL' book... well, there are already enough of those.

— Fred Armisen

Those smutty books sell because women wish their husbands had half the balls the men in those books do.

— Tara Brown

Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader…

— Anonymous

It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either…

— Alice Munro

My father, whose hobby was collecting secondhand cricket books, came back from a book fair one day with a copy of 'The…

— Sophie Hannah

Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most…

— Edward Carpenter

“They say the content and the cover are the most important things when it comes to a book or a novel, right?…

— Jimmy Tudeski

A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in…

— Dan Gilroy

We are all the people we knew; all the books we read; all the roads we travelled; all the mistakes we made;…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I wanted [the book 'There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?'] to be colorful. I wanted it to be evocative. I wanted…

— Morgan Parker

I heard about the book and I said, 'Oh my god, I've got to read this book,' and I didn't know that…

— Viola Davis

A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because…

— Mo Willems

The Lord has never indicated that black skin came because of being less faithful. Now, the Indian; we know why he has…

— LeGrand Richards

Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in…

— Tillie Olsen

Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders…

— Brennan Manning

I do a lot of research and yes, do know quite a few police officers, friends of mine and my husbands. However,…

— Franny Armstrong

The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power. The men who…

— Ayn Rand

The process of writing a book is infinitely more important than the book that is completed as a result of the writing,…

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

“I am writing a book entitled "Conquest." Please be ready. It is a book children should red.”

— Charles Keith Hardman

My first, 'Room on the Roof,' was the longest book I've written.

— Ruskin Bond

The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

— Macaulay Culkin

Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time.

— Alex Garland

“A good book will keep you fascinated for days. A good bookshop for your whole life.”

— Waterstones

“tastes and tales from Russia = I could not find the book in library or book store.”

— alla Danishavsky

I hope my books make statements about our general condition.

— William Golding

'The Stand' was great. Adapted by Stephen King from his massive book.

— Miguel Ferrer

I look at him, look at the book, remember, this book, this moment, the first book I ever loved

— Audrey Niffenegger

“That attraction force which always happens between the reader and the book, i adore it when it takes place <3”

— Perry

Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

— George Eliot

I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book

— Jeff Lindsay

I read books, physical books. I am comfortable with it, I can carry it. It is my habit.

— Gulzar

Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.

— Bill Vaughan

Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money.

— Leon Wieseltier

An empty book is like an Infant's soul, in which anything may be written,

— Thomas Traherne