Book Quotes · Page 194

“You have no ideas about what you can find in books these days, I’m telling you.”

— Linda Hamonou

“A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I wanted my book to be a guide for everyone who has been told 'no' in their life.

— Karine Jean-Pierre

“She loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It differentiated her from the others”

— Milan Kundera

“Create the worlds of your choice by writing the books you want.”

— Marcia Carrington

I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

“It's an actual book-book. Something I thought was lost on this generation of internet fiends.”

— Colleen Hoover

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

— Jorge Luis Borges

Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheating because that would be easy, first…

— Andy Stanley

The Rainbow Fish shared his scales left end right. And the more he gave away, the more delighted he became. When the…

— Marcus Pfister

I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was…

— Vikram Seth

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

— Umberto Eco

I try to do a lot of asymmetrical, triangular compositions - I find those work really well for comic book covers in…

— Jim Lee

In seven books, I've written my fair share of baby epilogues. Pregnancies and births and even grandchildren have made an appearance in…

— Sarah MacLean

Young adults are honest readers. They won't stay with a book unless they have a reason, so it has to move along.

— Jesse Andrews

Pulitzer's Gold is a goldmine of inspiration for both journalists and non-journalists. Those in the newspaper business, who now find themselves obsessing…

— Jeffrey Zaslow

'Lean on Pete' is the story of a boy and his horse, but it is never heart-warming - it ranges in tone…

— Jane Smiley

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they…

— Marilyn Monroe

Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at…

— Thomas Jefferson

Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the…

— Saint Augustine

Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen,…

— Fannie Hurst

If I can avoid doing freelance work, I prefer to. Not just because it takes me away from drawing comics, but also…

— Chester Brown

You and I are not Muslim, because we are born in a Muslim family. You and I are not Muslim, because you…

— Nouman Ali Khan

We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The book of books, the storehouse and magazine of life and comfort, the holy Scriptures.

— George Herbert

The Koran is a book of peace. It is a prophetic book of peace,

— Pope Francis

Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house.

— Lois Lowry

“I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.”

— Amit Kalantri

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.

— John Leonard

I'm not going to give quotes about inventing the 'beach book,' but I was certainly at the forefront of it.

— Elin Hilderbrand

“That's great, but what book should I read next?  What book would be a great companion”

— Jason Cannon

There's so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.

— Zayn Malik

You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.

— Gillian Flynn

It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad...

— Alain de Botton

“There is more to writing a book than just writing a book.”

— John Morris Benson

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

— Mary Higgins Clark

“The “A” List Series Book 1: All The Pretty Lights Book 2: The Harder They Fall”

— Tara Oakes

A wonderful book . . . Full of sadness, hope, and ultimately love. I found it very moving.

— Esther Freud