Book Quotes · Page 193

[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul...

— Israel Zangwill

“You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing — grinding, buffing, and polishing — not writing.”

— Guy Kawasaki

I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history…

— Alan Shepard

Look what a silly little book can do espeacially in the hands of a silly little girl!

— Lord Voldemort

I don't have time to read books. I've read my share of books throughout my life, and I will continue to do…

— Stephen A. Smith

Many, many people can write books. I just happen to be one of them.

— Michael Ian Black

I'm like the book which almost everyone seems to skim through the pages but never reads the whole story.

— Anonymous

“Sunrise - a time when all truths are still clean and enviable.”

— Carew Papritz

What adults don't always understand is that to a kid, a comic book is like a movie. My Marvel comics took my…

— Angela Bowie

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a…

— Jackie Collins

There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for…

— Frank Herbert

To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass…

— Robertson Davies

Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it…

— James Laughlin

Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible,…

— Catherine Mayer

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the…

— Jane Haddam

For years I've wanted to write a book about mummies, and had been following the science of mummy CT scans when the…

— Tess Gerritsen

“And since a novel has this correspondence to real life, its values are to some extent those of real life. But it…

— Virginia Woolf

At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I…

— Lance Armstrong

I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids…

— Lois Lowry

“Books are the food of the soul. Good and wholesome food given to a hungry body will nourish it, but if the…

— Anthony Mary Claret

Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders,…

— John Locke

When I first encountered the poems of Jon Woodward, I was stunned into the state that is my life's joy-I was in…

— Mary Ruefle

“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants.…

— Betty Smith

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

There are so many ways to make a book or comic, but most involve doing something online.

— Ryan North

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

— Greg Ginn

“Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).”

— Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY

Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.

— Christopher Paolini

I like books that are exciting and that make you think about things as well.

— Saoirse Ronan

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

— Cormac McCarthy

We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.

— Umberto Eco

Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.

— Dorothy Parker

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.

— Isabel Allende

“ALL THE BOOKS IN BOOKSTORES ARE NOTHING UNLESS YOU WORK.”

— DAVE SANTI

“Unlike a book or a film depression doesn’t have to be about something.”

— Matt Haig

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other…

— Caroline Gordon

“There is no friend so faithful as a good book. There is no worse robber than a bad book.”

— Italian proverb

“My life is an open book, like it or limp it ... your choice”

— Rashied Davids

“Books had been her means of escape; now they would be her refuge.”

— Trenton Lee Stewart